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Monday, November 25, 2013

Best things to inherit - #10

I have been looking through the Bible at the subject of inheritance, and while land is the prominent thing that is inherited in the Bible, it is not the only thing.  So here goes my list of things that I think are cool to inherit.

10.  The blessing.  "For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears."  Hebrews 12:17 (ESV)

This is a negative example of a very important inheritance.  Our children want to be blessed by us.  This blessing is one of the best blessings we as parents can hand on to our kids.  It also shows what the opposite of inheriting a blessing is.  It seems that Esau inherited rejection.  It may be that each parent has a choice to give their child a blessing or a rejection as an inheritance.  

How can we give our kids an inheritance of a blessing?

We can tell them that we love them out loud in a non-sarcastic way, and hopefully we are crying when we say it.  There is my idea.  What is yours?


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