The School of Greatness - 591 Leave Your Legacy with Ray Lewis

Episode Date: January 19, 2018

"If the last day of my life came, and people were sitting around me, I would say ‘Smile, because I made it to the other side.’” - Ray Lewis I constantly think about the fact that the only definite thing in this world is what we leave behind. Money comes and goes, belongings eventually break or get thrown out, but what people say about you will never change. This got me thinking about an amazing episode I did with Ray Lewis. Ray has been leaving a legacy not just in football, but to the world. On this 5 Minute Friday, we hear some of the most inspirational words about how anyone can leave a legacy and fulfilled life behind when they go on Episode 591.

This is 5-Minute Friday! We have an incredible interview today with someone who brings greatness out of everyone else. His name is Ray Lewis, and he's widely considered to be one of the most dominant defensive players in NFL history. When that legacy is done, a shade one day will close. What will people look back one day and say, what did you give me? And that is, I tell my family this all the time. I know you will, but don't cry when I'm gone. Please.

Because I've done it. I ran my race. Right? And now, to one day for me personally to hear those words that I know I will hear. Well done, my good and faithful servant. Then all I can leave is everything that I know I will hear, well done, my good and faithful servant. Then all I can leave is everything that I've endured, all of my pain that I don't remember, and all of the people that come behind me

can one day look back and say, he did it, so can I. It's kind of what I teach my kids that. I tell my kids all the time, as a baby, when they was babies, I used to say, that's why I chase sunsets. I say, look at the sunset. I say, what is that?

That's the sun. I say, but what is it? It's heaven. It's heaven. It's just settling to prepare us for another day. Yeah, but it's, you know, I read this book about heaven being over 40,000 plus sunsets. Streets paved in gold and you're just at this place where you don't have no memory of pain or fear or doubt.

And I said that if the last day of my life came and people were sitting around me, I would say smile because I made it to the other side. I believe all of us will be held accountable to how that we make people feel. Yeah. Like not, God won't ask

one question about a Super Bowl. He won't ask how much your bank account has. But he will ask a question to each and every person at death judgment. Who did you send towards me? Did you have a, did you, did you change? Did you alter heaven a little bit just by sending a person's life to me?

See, because if you change a life, then you alter heaven. And then if you altered heaven, then you will be remembered as doing God's will and not man's will. And that's what I want to be remembered as. I want to be remembered as a man that did God's will. And when you're done with that side of things, I'll see you on the other side. Sit up on the oak tree with a glass of lemonade with God's sugar, not cane. But we have a duty, Lewis, that we're supposed to make this world better, not make it bad, not make it worse. And I think me leaving here, this earth one day, there will be something said about people in general that you will remember for a lifetime. Yeah.

Because it just carries over to the next life. Right. The test is here. Right. So a Bible, B-I-B-L-E, basic instructions before leaving earth. Simple. But once you read it to understand the life of Jesus and the life of all of the greats that spoke about in the Bible,

David, Moses, Solomon, Peter, all of them, no matter what their faults were, it was what they did for people. That's why David wrote Psalms,

book of praise to give us just direction. Solomon, book of Proverbs. That's why he wrote a book of pure wisdom. He says, read these things because you will need these things to endure. So when you write your story, hopefully your story is remembered ages after you're gone. Hopefully your story is remembered ages after you're gone. And so I want to be remembered like David was remembered. A man after God's own heart.

A man that truly was okay with persecution. Because I knew where the ultimate would end up. And the ultimate for me is when the Lord come back, he says, many are called, few are chosen. And I'm going to make sure I carry out my life to make sure that I'm one of the chosen ones. And if I do that, he said, you live forever. That's called living. Yeah. All right. That's called living. Yeah. All right.

That's called life. And so that's why I think people like you, right? So I think we can't stop. Yeah. You know, I think the expansion of the mind is what we all should take time to do. Yeah, absolutely. Even when you think you got your whole world figured out, you can always evolve and go different places. Yeah.