I had a most encouraging conversation with a friend the other day. He asked me if I had used the devotional book my dad had written, “A Fresh Sip of God’s Word”*.  I told him yes, but it had been a while. He said that he was using it with his children and how God was using it to speak to him and his family.

When he said that it really encouraged my heart and I immediately thought of Hebrews 11:4, “And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.”  Dad wrote that devotional book over twenty years ago, and he died just a little over a year ago and yet, God is still using it to speak into people’s lives. My dad left a legacy, his faith still speaks today, and his books are merely one of them.

We should all strive to leave a legacy for those who come after us. Hebrews 12:1 says, therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us run the race that has been set before us. Those witnesses are not looking at us run the race, but we are to look at them. When you live by faith, you are leaving a legacy for others to look back on and be encouraged as they run their race. They will see that as you lived by faith, God is faithful to you, and they will know that He will be faithful to them.

 *A Fresh Sip of God’s Word by Don Davis is available at the Christian Supply Shop.”