Last night was full of blessing. As I watched one of my Sr. High students preach in the Jr. high environment, my life was filled with blessing. Emily the Preacher as we now call her delivered her first sermon ever. The students responded better than they have ever responded from my messages. She captivated their attention and cultivated their spiritual curiosity as she highlighted the blessing of serving. It was one of the first Wednesday nights in a while I haven't felt like my efforts and leadership were found in want and despair permeated my thought. As I settled in last night and read Hebrews 12 the blessing was driven home. "Surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses"- suddenly I saw the burden and blessing of legacy. The legacy that was passed on to me- that cultivated my call, captivated my dreams, and capitulated my hopes. Those "witnesses", those still living and those already passed on, cheer on the hope that through my life and then through those lives of those I influence the legacy of God's grace will carry on. Last night was an incredible window to that hope. I feel the richness of God bounty pouring into my life, the blessing of God's courage filling my mind, and the peace of God's love for humanity captivating my heart.
I hope the legacy I leave through my living will be a uncompromising reflection of the love I have experienced through grace. That through this short time I have here I might be a supernova of influence all to which position and point towards God Almighty.
I am so blessed, so blessed, so incredibly blessed.
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I'm glad to here things like that. After I left I was more worried that the youth would lose their fire. I am overjoyed that God placed you there. It sounds like you are doing a wonderful job. Keep up the good work Zeke, they are a special bunch of youth.
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