Impact

Dara Horn – “Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.”

You know how wood has rings and when you cut down a tree you can count the rings. Those rings when counted can gage the age of the tree. The rings grow from small to large. When we think about our lives, I think we can look as those rings or circles in reference to relationships we have and when we think about it that way our circles would most likely go from large to small as we get older.

Think about the number of people we have had and known in our lives over the years. We’ve had ones that we’ve known really long, ones we have deeper relationship with and ones that we may come across from time to time. It is amazing how many we have come into contact with and how many of them have impacted our lives and we theirs.

Philemon 1:6 – “And I am praying that you will put into action the generosity that comes from your faith as you understand and experience all the good things we have in Christ.”

The older we get the smaller our personal circles get. The impact, however, we have made throughout our lives makes big circles or at least we hope it makes big deep circles.

Our impact on others is what will be remembered. So be sure you are living a difference making life with God guiding you down each and every path and with whom you come in contact with.

Mark 12:31 “The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

When we love our others as we love ourselves, we will make huge impacts on the lives of all those around us. Let’s make those impact circles big ones with our stories of how God has walked with us through all the seasons we have faced.

No matter what we do we are making an impact. The impacts can be big and small but none-the-less they are being made.

Job 4:3-6 “In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak. Your words have supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky knees. But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you. Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope?”

Job who was going through the worst thing pretty much anyone could go through, and his friend is saying you have made all this impact, does that not give you hope?

Now I wouldn’t sit here and say his friends were giving good advice, but they did notice Job’s impact and made note of it and pointed it out.

Others take notice so live a life that is pleasing to the Lord.