God, Old Men, And Old Ladies Series

One day my grandpa gave me one of his old pocketknives. He went back to his bedroom, pulled out the knife from the drawer and handed it to me.

It was old with a broken blade but meant a lot to me. But someone where along the years when I was moving, I lost the pocketknife.

My other grandfather was a conductor on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. When he died, He left me is railroad pocket watch. I have it. I treasure it but it does not work any longer. It’s broken and it just sits. Hangs in a case I bought to display it.

I think these two things remind me that everything physical in this world ultimately becomes broken or lost.

Yet, they also left me two other things. They both left me their Bibles. Yet not just the physical Bibles but as old men, they left this earth with a legacy of living for Christ. I often thumb through their Bibles and read the things they marked and wrote in the pages of their study, and it inspires me to share the same legacy with others that they left me. A legacy of real life that is found in the person of Jesus Christ.

Invitation:

Paul is teaching us here that we are all handing down something to someone in our sphere of influence. What are you handing down? Whether young or old; you are important to God and His church. Will you come, join, and serve with us?

No one is older than God. There’s not greater Father and do you know what He handed down to you? His own Son. His best He delivered to a cross to pay the price for our sins, then, He raised Him up so that you could be raised up as well and be given eternal life.

Today, do you know Him? Have you received the greatest gift handed down from above? Have you received Jesus?