II Chronicles 23-25
It’s always true that following
God is a generational movement. It
only takes one generation for its effect to be lost or found. No one in my father’s family was
redeemed until he was. Afterwards
all those of age and most of the ones older than he have been redeemed. This passage brings that truth to the
forefront. Whatever fathers
follow, that generation follows.
“Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and
the king, that they should be the Lord’s people.” 23:16 “…because
they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.” 24:24b As the
generation goes, so goes the culture and the country. My older brother, a great Methodist minister, preached
a sermon one time titled “What’s worse than going to hell?” The answer was “Going to hell and meeting your
children there.”
If anything is better than going
to heaven, it would have to be going there and being with all your children. It’s never too late to meet God; introduce
Him to your children and make a covenant between Him and all of you. Anyone can do it. My father was 16 when he made The
Covenant. He is now “gathered to
his fathers”, but The Covenant is being faithfully passed on to his great
grandchildren, Reese, Cora, Knox Lee and Baby Bray!!!
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