Dive In: Platform Diving

What kind of legacy are we build­ing right now? That was the chal­lenge we were pre­sented Sunday. Will our spir­i­tual legacy be one that is for­getable or will it be one that will last gen­er­a­tions? We have been look­ing at div­ing into min­istry. So we end with plat­form div­ing. And here are my ser­mon notes:

Platform div­ing is all about your legacy. What will we be remem­bered for? It is a com­bi­na­tion of doing all the steps of div­ing in we have looked at.

Legacy is not about mate­r­ial things. Legacy is all about how much of you is left behind not stuff. How much of our life affected oth­ers. 1 Timothy 1:5 [show]1 Timothy 1:5 [5]The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good con­science and a sin­cere faith. (ESV)
. We want peo­ple to say to some one, “You look a lot like his/her spir­i­tual life.”

To have a legacy
Live for oth­ers. Phil 2:4 [show]Philippians 2:4 [4]Let each of you look not only to his own inter­ests, but also to the inter­ests of oth­ers. (ESV)

Do it with all you have.

To plat­form dive, you will pay the price. You have to be devoted. Romans 12:11 [show]Romans 12:11 [11]Do not be sloth­ful in zeal, be fer­vent in spirit, serve the Lord. (ESV)

When we get bored we can do stu­pid things. When we are spir­i­tu­ally bored, we do stu­pid things.

Be con­sis­tent Jude 1:23 [show]Jude 1:23 [23]save oth­ers by snatch­ing them out of the fire; to oth­ers show mercy with fear, hat­ing even the gar­ment stained by the flesh. (ESV)
. Love peo­ple but don’t get con­t­a­m­i­nated. Have a con­si­tent spir­i­tual life. It isn’t always easy. It can be real hard at times to keep on the track and keep running.

Despite some mixed metaphors, div­ing in and run­ning the race, the mes­sage is clear. We build up our legacy through­out our lives. As we serve oth­ers in min­istry that legacy is built up. Sometimes slowly, some­times dra­mat­i­cally. Sometimes we may fall down but it is all about how we deal even with those fail­ures that helps build a legacy we would be proud of.’

Our lives are a race and how we run that race is how we build our legacy.  I am glad that ones legacy is not based on a short brief span, only a por­tion of our entire life. Rather, we are build­ing up that legacy. Even if you feel like you don’t have any legacy to speak of now, or even have a neg­a­tive one, liv­ing life for God to the fullest, serv­ing Him and His peo­ple, that legacy can become one that you will be glad to pass down.