Leaving an Impact
Leaving an impact, everyone does it. Everyone we meet laves an impact on us, and everyone we meet we leave an impact on. Sometimes it is a good thing, while other times it’s a negative thing. But, good or bad we leave an impact.
Notice how a small drop into water leaves its impact. Ripples spread out from where it hits so anyone can tell the water’s surface was disturbed. Yet, it only a few moments that affect is gone. The fact that the drop impacted the water will soon be forgotten.
I remember hearing a speaker share a good illustration of making an impact. He said, if you want to see how much impact we often make, put your hand in a bucket of water and begin swirling it around. After you have created quite a disturbance, remove your hand. For awhile the affects of your swirling will remain. Yet, after not so long a time, the water returns to same placid state in which you found it! So much for lasting impact.
Yet, on the other hand, let’s think of a different type of impact. Have you ever been visiting a tourist spot and seen a machine that will stamp a penny with an image of the place? I have. For fifty cents and one penny I can make an object, impacted or imprinted, with the image and keep it for all time. The old image is overlaid by the new one. Though it’s still just a copper coin, the face of Lincoln is gone for the picture of the attraction. No longer is it “spendable.” Rather, it now bears the impact and image of a new stamp. This permanent impact and change is the kind of impact we should seek to leave on people around us.
Whose life are you leaving a lasting impact for the Lord? Are you intentionally attempting to leave this kind of impact on others? Each of us are to be engaged in impact ministries.
Think about it.
Tags: image, impact, imprint, ripples, stamp
Trackback from your site.