What Will You Leave Behind?
Back in the 2nd century, St. Polycarp of Smyrna wrote a letter to the people of Philippi in which he spoke of his hope that they would be built up in faith and become saints, "with all others under heaven who in the future will believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, and in His Father, who raised Him from the dead." That last part got me to thinking. While he may have been speaking about you and I as those "in the future," how often do any of us consider those who will come after us? We, too, like the Philippians, have a responsibility through our "patience, long-suffering, endurance and purity" to leave a legacy of faith which will connect us "with all others under heaven." How concerned are we about them, and their faith? What are we doing, right now, to lay a path for those who will come after us, so that they will believe in Jesus, his Father and the resurrection? Does my life reflect (or reveal) my convictions to the degree that those