After hearing last Sunday’s preaching on Posterity centered
on the heart of God for the next generations, I got so excited thinking of my
future family that God will give to me as an inheritance. My heart and my mind traveled
joyfully into the vision of having a privilege of loving a husband and of being
able to raise godly kids.
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I feel so loved that God has given me a desire to build a
family few years from now. And I wonder what my future husband looks like or how
many kids we will have or when will this come to pass. I realized that families
are built for a generational purpose.
Countless are the number of people who lived in the world
and so are the thoughts of God uncountable concerning us. Why would God think
generational? Why does He build nations generational? Why does He bless
generational?
There must be something that God wants us to learn and adapt
from His very nature of being an everlasting God. Unlike men who are like the
grass of the field which is here today and gone tomorrow, God never changes.
From everlasting to everlasting, He is God. His heart, His Word and His purpose
never change.
Now what can we do in response to this? I believe God wants
us to think and live generational—to
be wise in our choices and in our decisions that will affect our legacy which
we will leave behind for the generations after us. If you’re underestimating
the impact you are making now by the way you live, it’s time for you to know
that how you live matters. What kind of legacy are you leaving behind? Make the
most out of every single day.
Remember, if God cares generational, we must also care
about what we pass on to our successors. What should we take hold of and pass
on to the future generations is the sole purpose of mankind—to love the LORD our God, to obey Him and to walk
in all His ways.
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If you’re a daughter or a son, “obey your parents in the
LORD, for this is right. ‘Honor your
father and mother’—which is the first commandment with a promise—‘that it
may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.’” (Ephesians
6:1-3)
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If you’re like me, single but believing God for a lifetime
partner, prepare and pray as early as
now for your future family and have the goal of building it to make known
to them who God is and what He has done for all of us.
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The life we live now will either bless or burden the future
generations. The Bible says that when we love the LORD our God and obey Him
with all our hearts and with all our souls, we will live. Let’s choose life today so that we and our children
and the next generations will also live.
Will you allow the Everlasting Generational God to create in you today a generational heart that honors Him now and forever?
