Daily Wisdom

“Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers? Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.” Joel 1:2-3

Consider your worth?  We’ve heard the stories of great inherited wealth and trust funds causing one to think personally of their own estates and what it has to offer their own family.  By worldly standards the value of one’s estate is measured in riches of money not the richness of depth and strength.  One of the greatest gifts you can give your children is your life's story to help them repeat your successes and avoid your mistakes. God urged parents to pass their history down to their children, telling over and over the important lessons they learned.  “Tell ye your children of it” – concerning God’s goodness, generation was to declare to generation the wonders of His love. “He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children, that the generation to come might know them, the children which should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children that they might ... not forget the works of God” (Psa 78:5-7).  This tradition of thankfulness to God, reinforced the law; “Take heed to thyself, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, but teach them thy sons and thy sons’ sons” (Deu 4:9). Do your children know your testimony in Christ; do they know the goodness God has worked through you and in you by His righteousness? Teach a son or daughter to work and earn is needful, but it only allows them to eat for a day; teach them the love and goodness of God through Christ and they will learn of wealth the world has not to offer. 

Do your children see the image of the world or the image of Christ in your life?

HSAY…Todd