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Heritage can be pivotal to someone’s life. In the instance of someone leaving a significant inheritance, it can change the way someone lives for the remainder of their days. My wife and I chose to join the Costa Rica trip based on this principle. With a young son at home, we wanted him to see firsthand that, just as Christ served, so must we be willing to serve.
In print that sounds fine and dandy but when the rubber meets the road, are we truly willing to live in such a way? Through the experience of preparing for the trip, I have been able to share with my son exactly what it means to live intentionally. To intentionally seek out opportunities to love on those who are hurting. To intentionally save your available funds for something greater than the extra cup of coffee at Starbucks. To intentionally serve together as a family.
PJ just spoke in a recent sermon on the unity of the church, based on Ephesians 4. I have looked to the beginning of that chapter as a rallying cry for my family, my team, and myself.
“Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love, 3 being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.”
What I see here is not a man imprisoned by the Roman Empire, as many of us would have seen it; I hear a directive to fellow believers begging us to take up the task before us; to seek out the opportunity to serve alongside our brothers and sisters for something far greater than any heritage we could ever foster. We are asked to join in the lineage and legacy of a King. Who could say no to that?