Leaving Forever

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
LEAVING FOREVER
Prov 13:22
22 A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children,
but a sinner's wealth is stored up for the righteous.
NIV
Here again I think many might well use this saying of God to insist it is a biblical principle to hoard and store up as much money as possible in order to leave it all behind for the children and grandchildren. This approach to seeing what is said would be far from the truth. Of what eternal value are any of the wealth or material goods of the world? Why would God what a believer to demonstrate to his children and grandchildren the principle of seeking after and lying up of treasures here on earth? Will not God continue to provide all a believer will ever need and thus will do the same for his children and his children’s children? Ah, that is the rub. He will continue to provide for the future generations if they are living their lives for him rather than for their own self. So then the inheritance of eternal value which I must leave for my children is a life in Christ. As a father I need to live my life as to lead my children to Christ, so they in turn will lead their children to Christ and on through the generations will follow the ways of God. I did not have that inheritance, but it now starts with me and has already been passed on to my daughters and I see them passing that on to theirs. This is the inheritance which is spoken of here, not of material wealth. That sort of wealth will not last more than one lifetime on earth. Yet even that which is made and store up by those who God calls sinners will be made available by him to his righteous. Surely God uses sinners to provide material blessing to his followers. How ironic is that! It is not that believers should look to those who are classified by God as sinners for any provisions because God is the believer’s source for all things spiritual and material. One of the main focuses of my life is to leave behind a heritage of faith for my children to follow after. Surely my main focus is to follow Christ first, and to live a life of faith for without faith, I cannot please God. If I live this life of faith and leave that inheritance for the generations of my family to follow I have done well. I need not concern myself with the worlds’ goods and how many of them I leave behind for my family for all of that will fade away, but God’s word will last forever. This is what I leave for my children, I leave them “Forever”.