A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children - Proverbs 13:22
Recently Wendy and I had the joy spending a little more time than usual with our third grandchild Alice May (aged 17 months) and we’ve both been delighted with her playfulness, humour and boundless love of life. All of this set me thinking as to what inheritance we can leave for our grandchildren. I guess some will be able to leave money, property and even land. But what kind of inheritance will last? When the Bible was first translated into the language of the Cree Indians, it was found that they had no word for ‘sin’ in their vocabulary. The translators finally settled on ‘Pastawe’ which means ‘Anything that destroys our children’s future’. So surely the best inheritance we can leave must be ‘Anything that secures our children’s future’ – and that’s got to be Righteousness! Show them the way by explanation and example - to quote a 70’s song - ‘Teach your children well....’ and that means helping introduce them to the only truly Righteous One, the Lord Jesus Christ. He lived a perfect life and died a sinner’s death that we might become the righteousness of God, in him. In these days when purity of life and morality are slipping down stream fast let’s show our children’s children how they might obtain that inheritance which is ‘imperishable and undefiled that will not fade away’.