All of us pray for blessings on our children.
Ok, we've reached that part of the Bible that is just straight out laws. Makes for dry reading, right? Certainly no gems here, right? But I pause at that part in the reading when the Lord says:
"...I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments." [Deut. 5:9-10]
I pray often that the sins of this father will not impair the lives of my children. And I thank the Lord for the blessing of my father and grandfather's devotion to God. I wonder how much of what I am blessed with and what my children are blessed with are because of the lives of my fathers before me. We have an obligation not only to our children but to our children's children. Let's not just save the Earth for them. Let's save their souls.
Today is the birthday of my youngest child, Sawyer. He's 18 today. May his life and the lives of all my children and your children, reader, be blessed down through the generations.
My post last year on this date.
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