Christian Foundations
DEVOTIONAL ARCHIVE
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the Lord swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
--Deuteronomy 11:18-21
In life, most people are always building something up—a solid family foundation, a good reputation, a successful career, our relationships, and so on. But some of these things can vanish quickly due to financial loss, natural disasters, gossip, and other unforeseen difficulties.
Daniel Webster, a statesman, lawyer, and orator (1782-1852), once said:
“If we work on marble it will perish. If we work on brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust. But if we work on men’s immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles…we engrave on those tablets something which time cannot efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.”
One of the greatest achievements you and I can accomplish in this life is passing on a legacy of faith to our children and grandchildren. Many things can be destroyed in this life, but a legacy of faith will live on for generations.
In Proverbs 22:6, Solomon wrote, “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”
Let us be the ones who sow the seeds of love, truth, and righteousness in the hearts of the next generation, so they can advance the Kingdom of Christ in the years to come.
PRAYER CHALLENGE: Pray that God would make you the kind of godly man or woman needed to impact the lives of the next generation. Ask Him to provide opportunities for you to minister, encourage, and train up your own family in His Word and ways.
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