Nehemiah 13:14 (KJV)
Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
Nehemiah mentions that, for a time, he had been away from Jerusalem. Having built the wall, he must have returned to the king. But the burden for the city never left him, and permission was obtained for him to return.
When he returned, he was disturbed to see that the people had already begun drifting away from what he had established. He witnessed firsthand the tendency of the human heart to fall back into worldliness and compromise.
His response was a prayer: "Lord, don't let all the good that's been done be wiped out."
I, too, have witnessed this tendency of the human heart. Work that I believed was well established drifted—sometimes back into the world and, in other cases, toward compromise with worldliness. What I sincerely did for good no longer reflects what I believe glorifies God.
Now I've been around long enough to know that my ability to effect good deeds for the glory of God cannot remain in my hands forever. I must pass that work on to others. Like Nehemiah, I understand his prayer and make it my own:
"Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.”
Remember the work, Lord, and let some of it survive to another generation.
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Don't Let Your Life's Work Die with You: A prayer for legacy.
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