What is your legacy? That’s a pretty deep question to start things off today, but it’s one worth asking. What are you leaving behind once your time on earth is through? Our hope is that through this week, you have been challenged and encouraged to be the person, and the parent, God has called you to be. The truth is, it’s only in first being the person God has called you to be, that you can be the parent He wants you to be. Spending time with Him every day is critical to your development as a Christian. You just can’t fully be (act, think, and speak) like the Lord if you never spend time with Him.
Our hope for you, as well as for ourselves, is at the end of our lives we’ll be able to say the words that the apostle Paul said at the end of his life. Those words are found in 2 Timothy 4:7, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” Notice that Paul didn’t just say that he finished the race. He prefaces his finish with what it took to make it to the finish- – the fight. Through fighting for what was right, Paul finished his race and he kept the faith. What a legacy. What’s yours?
Our hope for you is that you would truly love what is right. This world does everything it can to distract us into thinking that what the world offers is what’s really valued and needed. We need to choose what we love. Our hope is that you would TRULY LOVE what is right. Don’t get swept up in what the world and society say you should love. Love the Lord, who is good, and love what is right.
Matthew 22:37-38- “Jesus replied: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.”
Titus 1:8 says that a leader in the church must be, “one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.”
Beyond just loving what is good and right, we also hope that you would model what is right.
1 Peter 1:15- “But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do…” Model what it means to live in the right way. Of course you’re not perfect, but we need to be modeling Christ-likeness to those around us. As a parent, your kids see the best and the worst in you. Sometimes, if we choose to be vulnerable in expressing our shortcomings when we blow it, it can show our children the importance of confession, authenticity, and repentance. Kids don’t need, or want, to see you be perfect. They want to see you be real. Loving what is right and trying to model that out in front of others, including our family, is worth the fight.
Continue instructing your student in what is right. Pass along your love for the Lord, and for what is right, on to them. It’s worth it, and we’re in your corner cheering you on!
-The Student Ministry Staff Team
Use the following link to see some photos from Beach Week so far: wc.org/bw25teamphotos
