After a Loss

I plugged in to the Word today, while travelling to work. It was one of those random sermons thing again as... I forgot to upload new sermons into my Iphone. But amazingly enough, that random selection got me shema-ing to Pastor Gina Smith's sermon, titled "After a Loss".

Pastor Gina Smith is the wife of the late Pastor Wendall Smith, and the mother of the current lead pastor of the City Church, Pastor Judah Smith.

It's titled "After a Loss" because its the first sermon she preached, after the loss of her husband.
It was an emotional sermon, if you asked me.

But one thing that I really caught is what Pastor Gina said midway through the sermon.

There may be grieve in this life. It's real. It's very real to be sad when someone you loved leave the face of this earth. And so it's okay to grieve. But after the season of grieving, comes the season of moving on and continuing this amazing legacy that Wendall leaves behind.

The devil thought that he's being smart, by taking out the lead pastor of the church, the church would fall. But on the contrary, that's just how stupid the devil can be. Instead of being cold and out, we will rise up. We will listen and share the Word even more intentionally now. We will plugged into the Word and Shema Shema even MORE.

This legacy of faith and prosperity that Pastor Wendall leaves behind, is not going to stop. It has now been multiplied through ALL of us. It was one person back then... But now it's gonna be thousands of us. All for that one purpose, to glorify and to lift up the name of the Saviour.

Wow. That leaves me thinking, you know, about the legacy that I want to leave behind in the future, when I leave this planet for heaven. Definitely, I would want to leave a legacy that would change and impact people's lives. I would want my legacy of faith... of healing... of propserity... of love... etc. to continue on, and not just die there.

One thing's for sure, this legacy would NEVER become a legacy, if not for the Love of Christ and His finished work.

At the end of the day, we as children of God, will ALWAYS win. It's never about whether we will see the light out of this darkness, but it's about when God will be glorified in our situations. Because we know and we know that until GOD is glorified, let's not stop believing.

He is still working on it. For our good. For our Hope. :)