Ronny's Corner: Mind, Body, & Soul Transformation

09/17/2026

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“A good and honest life is a blessed memorial; a wicked life leaves a rotten stench.—Proverbs 10:7 MSG

Your legacy is how people remember who you were and what your life contributed to our world. What legacy will you leave behind after your life here is over?

In Proverbs 10:7, the Bible clearly contrasts good and bad legacies. It says that a good and honest life creates a “blessed memorial.” If you leave that kind of legacy, your memory will bring encouragement, hope, and inspiration to others long after you’ve passed away. But if you leave the legacy of a life of sin without a relationship with God, your legacy will leave “a rotten stench” when people remember you. No one wants to leave a legacy that stinks! Too often, though, people end up doing that because they don’t prioritize living a holy life.

God wants your life to be a blessing for all the people who knew you and for all the generations that will follow you. Leaving a legacy of a good and honest life doesn’t happen by accident. You need to develop a legacy like that by making faithful choices day by day.

You can choose to be honest when it would be easier to hide the truth. You can put kindness into action every day through your words and deeds. You can choose forgiveness instead of holding grudges. You can choose to be a lifelong learner who’s humble and always willing to let the Holy Spirit teach you more.

When you choose to live a good and honest life, you’re building a legacy that’s a blessed memorial of you and your life. That’s far more important than how much money or how many possessions or achievements you leave behind. The people who knew you can spend your money, lose your possessions, and forget your worldly achievements. But they’ll always remember you as a blessing if you leave behind a legacy of trusting Jesus to help you live with goodness and honesty. That will inspire them to trust Jesus to help them live holy lives, as well. Nothing else you can leave behind is more important than that.

The way you treat people today becomes the memory they carry tomorrow. When you’re walking closely with Jesus, your life reflects God’s goodness. People notice all the fruit of the Holy Spirit at work in your life: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and self-control. That kind of legacy is like a sweet fragrance that people enjoy when they remember who you were and how you lived.

In this fallen world, it’s easy to get caught up in your daily responsibilities that you forget the bigger picture. You can let your daily life shrink down to the level of your to-do list. Don’t let that happen! Every day, remind yourself that the choices you make will build your legacy – and prioritize making the best ones by walking with Jesus as he guides you.

You might think that your efforts to live a good and honest life don’t matter very much. But God hears everything you say and sees everything you do. Nothing you say or do for God is ever wasted.

If you look back on your past and feel like the legacy you’ve built so far isn’t the kind of legacy you want to leave behind, you can start changing it now. God will help you heal, grow, and move forward well. God’s grace will cover your past, and God’s mercy will give you a fresh start if you ask God to help you build a better legacy from now on.

Let your life be a blessed memorial that encourages everyone who comes after you! —By Whitney Hopler for Crosswalk Magazine

09/17/2026

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No matter our efforts, intentions, or even accomplishments, each of us is disappointed at some point. Sometimes we are disappointed in ourselves and the decisions we’ve made, whether intentional or not, and other times, we are let down by people we love.

Marriages fail, friendships crumble, churches split, siblings quarrel, the world wars with itself—is it any wonder that life leaves us feeling as though something better should have happened by now?

When I consider those who have disappointed me the most (outside myself, because I’m my own worst critic), they are always the people I care about the most. The deeper we love someone, the deeper they can hurt us. In love, we have made ourselves vulnerable to someone our hearts are tied to.

We’ve put our worst on the table in the name of trust, so when that trust is shattered, we're left afraid to be vulnerable again. Even worse, it teaches us to be skeptical of receiving love from anyone else, including God.

If I’m honest, there have been times when I have been disappointed in God and questioned both His sovereignty and His love. I’ve been broken by the outcome of a loved one’s terminal illness, disheartened when my hard work didn’t produce the right contract or paycheck, and angered by the injustice that tears communities apart. I question what it means for God to be good, for Him to be sovereign, and for me to accept that I am not God.

When I’m in this cynical headspace, I must remind myself that the root of almost all sin is pride:

"When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom."—Proverbs 11:2

“God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."—James 4:6

“For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you."—Romans 12:3

We think we know better, can do better, and are right because of our feelings and perceptions. We are so consumed by our opinion and need for control that we forget that very thing—we only have one opinion because we only have one perspective, one limited understanding of how everything can (or should) operate.

We are only one person, surrounded by one circle of people, at one time in history, with one lens through which we can see only our small piece of the world.

We are swayed by our feelings, deceived by our ignorance, and crippled by our feeble bodies.

We are human, and as humans, who are we to think that we can define justice for all of time, space, and matter? Who are we to think we always know the right answer?

We are human, and as prideful humans, we shouldn’t believe that we can understand the mysteries of God. And when we look around at the world, we are all on an equal playing field, surrounded by other finite humans. Thus, whether we fully understand Him—or at times even dislike Him—we have nowhere to turn for heavenly wisdom but God. He is the one in whom I put my hope, as the Psalmist does. Because the more I live life, the more I discover how little I know… and how selfish I am.

His goodness isn’t deterred by our sinfulness. His justice isn’t impacted by our injustice. Who He is can’t be impacted by mere mortals. So I will continue to live into the truth that He is good, that His mercy endures, and that His grace is forever available, not because life is never disappointing, but because mankind, myself included, is.

If you’re disappointed in God, friend, don’t allow masked pride to deceive you into thinking God is to blame. He’s without blame, without blemish. He is love, and He is healing for all who are broken and disappointed.
—By Peyton Garland for Crosswalk Magazine

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