Blessing Your Children

The Blessing

By William M. Self, Sr.

 

  You cannot make enough money in your life to leave an inheritance

That will compare to just living a righteous life and being generous

 

The righteous always leave a blessing that far out weighs their net assets

 

Blessing Your Children

A very wise pastor friend of mine in his 30’s once

said he would not write a book until he was in his 50’s.

It takes decades to prove real quality

 and know it when you see it.

An old gray beard looks back

 on the families he has known.

He writes about the righteous father.

The man who lives a life of doing what is right.

He says out of all his years he has

never seen this type of man forsaken.

Never seen him fail or left alone.

When the hard times came, his

children never had to beg for food.

In fact, they were always generous.

And the righteous and generous

man’s children are blessed.

 

Now that I am older I, too, have seen greater

opportunities are given to the children of a man

 who works hard and does what is right and is generous.

Doors open for those children much easier.

Trust, honor, respect are not only given to

him but people see his household this way.

The righteous man’s children find it much easier

 to be accepted even before they prove themselves.

Because of the respect of the father even the

children’s mistakes are handled with more grace.

This is also true of the righteous mother.

Not everyone is born with a righteous father or mother.

But everyone has the opportunity

to become one and break the cycle.

The righteous do not look for a

handout or what they can take or get.

They look for the opportunity to give

 what they have, even if it is not much.

In return, they receive blessing and

those blessings become opportunities.

And the opportunities become their provision.

 “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down,

shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap.

For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Luke 6:38 NIV

  You cannot make enough money

 in your life to leave an inheritance…

That will compare to just living a

righteous life and being generous.  

 

Scripture Reading

Psalm 37:25-26 NIV

25 I was young and now I am old,

yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken

or their children begging bread.

26 They are always generous and lend freely;

their children will be blessed.