January 5th
"in·her·i·tance"
n.
1. a.The act of inheriting.
b.Something inherited or to be inherited.
2. Something regarded as a heritage: the cultural inheritance of Rome. See Synonyms at heritage.
3. Biology.
a.The process of genetic transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring.
b.A characteristic so inherited.
c.The sum of characteristics genetically transmitted from parents to offspring.
What will your children inherit? What about your grandchildren? Would you like them to know God's mercy as you have or even more so? What a wonderful inheritance to pass on from generation to generation. If this is what we want for our children, we must help them to reverence the Lord.
Mercy is God's gift to us; reverence is our gift to God. The two work together to leave a legacy of faithfulness to future generations.
His mercy goes on from generation to generation, to all who fear him.
Luke 1:50
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
Gregory Bateson
Heaven
