Legacity - n, tenacious, legacy-mindedness.
This is an assiduous approach to producing legacy. This is the long war -- aiming your efforts around training your children to raise up and train their children.
Deuteronomy 6:1-2
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: that thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
God commanded Moses to teach fathers to teach their children to teach their children. So, a father's duty is to teach his children the commandments, statutes, and judgments of God. And one of these commands he is to teach, is that they are to someday teach their children the commandments, statutes, and judgments of God. Just as Jesus commanded His disciples to make disciples that make disciples, so He commanded His children to teach their children to teach their children. It is one in the same. Making disciples and training children are part and parcel, warp and woof.
Make babies.
Make disciples.
Train your children.
Train disciples.
Legacity is living your life in light of those lives who will bear your last name. It is creating a culture to be tangibly passed along, an inheritance in God, from God, and going to God -- something that has ancient stability, current fertility, and eternal applicability; that is, living for forever by living in the Lord right now -- loving those in front of you at your table by teaching them to love those that will be in front of them at theirs someday.
Manufacture ammunition for your great grandchildren. Store up and stockpile generational gusto.
In short, pack a punch.
You spend time and care packing your children's lunches for later?
Don't forget to pack a punch for them for dessert.
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