A flash from the past …

If you had to pick a fashion trend from your past to come back into style again, what would you pick?

• Bell bottom pants?
• Some loud plaids?
• Polyester?
• Padded shoulders?
• Fat lapels?
  
• Shirts unbuttoned down to your navel?
• Platform shoes?
• Leg warmers?
• Baggy workout pants?
• Half shirts?
• Tube socks?
• Parachute pants?
  

How about hair styles?

• Crew cut?
• Bo Derek-style dreadlocks?
• Bowl cut?
• A mullet?
• The bee hive?
• Feathered hair?
• Pig tails?
• Perms?
  

Fashions and styles fade, but given enough time, they often come back, at least for an encore.

The same goes for ideas, and one of the most common concepts to bounce back among Christian circles — especially within men’s ministries — is the idea of legacy.

We don’t dwell on legacy for long, perhaps because we don’t like to think about death. Death frightens many people, so they avoid the topic. As a result, we don’t give as much consideration to what we’ll leave behind us when this life is over.

When we do think about legacy, it’s often in terms of accomplishments we leave behind. The writer of Hebrews gives us a distinct idea of an enduring legacy in Hebrews 11:4:

“It was by faith that Abel brought a more acceptable offering to God than Cain did. Abel’s offering gave evidence that he was a righteous man, and God showed his approval of his gifts. Although Abel is long dead, he still speaks to us by his example of faith.”

Is the faith you live out an example that could endure time? Will your faith be your legacy, or the lack thereof?

Scotty