Generational God

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 parent, you should teach your children to love the LORD and “do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the LORD.” (Ephesians 6:4)

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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?