THE GENERATIONAL BLESSING
I can remember as though it was yesterday when our daughter Constance lost her baby doll, Julie. Constance and I went to visit my mother on a shopping expedition. Constance's little heart was broken when she discovered her baby doll, Julie, was lost. I quickly purchased her another doll, a Cabbage Patch, which looked similar. The only difference was the new baby doll had one tooth, and the older one had no teeth. Constance lovingly embraced her new baby doll, believing it was the old one found and rescued. At the tender age of four and tears of joy streaming down her face and holding Julie at arm's length, Constance looked at her baby doll and said, "Oh Julie, Julie, you grew a tooth!" And she embraced her again with many hugs and kisses. I was so relieved, and to my surprise, she believed that it was the same baby doll!
Our daughter Constance is all grown up now with a beautiful family of her own. Her wonderful husband, Kobie, and their sixteen-month-old baby girl, Isabella Helen-Rose, and their pup, Bingley. My husband Kent and I now see their daughter Isabella with the same Cabbage Patch doll and they named her Julie, also! Isabella is just as smitten as Constance was when she was a little girl with her precious Julie! This tradition went from generation to generation.
It is the same with the one and living God that dwells in heaven. We serve a generational God. God said he is the God of Abraham and Issac and Jacob. The only true living God. King David declared that God has taught me from my youth, and I will tell everyone in my family from generation to generation until I am old and grey about his righteousness and covenants towards us! God works in generations. The blessing is in generations, beloved. God blesses every generation that believes in him.
If we, in our finite beings, can give good things to our loved ones and go through extreme measures to please our earthly children, how much more will our heavenly Father do for his children, "the children of God" that he created for his glory? Let us all take a moment of silence and make a memorial to God through the name of his Son Jesus Christ for his blessings and faithfulness towards us from generation to generation. In Jesus name. AMEN.
"I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living" (MATTHEW 22:32).
"O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Now also when I am old and grey headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come" (PSALM 71:17-18).
"Thy name, O Lord, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations" (PSALM 135:13).
GLORY BE TO GOD,
Reverend Helen Trower
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