For the Future of the Children

My continual prayer is out of the psalms (Psalm 19:14).

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight,

O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. 

Even as I write, I am beginning to realize the things I want to leave as a legacy for my children and my grandchildren and on and on and on. I’m 39 right now. I don’t have grandchildren. My children are young.

But I want to look forward to the future and see what is important about my life. I want my life to shine in such a way and be so full of the Lord that my children are able to be where I am quickly and stand on my shoulders to be lifted up to the next place that is higher than I’ve been able to attain. And they are able to be higher and higher toward the Lord and go deeper with the Lord so that their children are able to go even higher and even deeper with the Lord than they have been.

I’m becoming more and more focused on leaving a legacy for my children. Leaving a legacy for my heritage line. I want to leave a really good heritage to where a hundred years from now, two hundred years from now they can look back and be moving continually toward the throne. ...Because the depth of intimacy that the Lord offers is so much deeper than I can comprehend. If I reach the deepest depth that I can think of, there is still more. If my children reach a deeper depth than that, there is still more. And if my grandchildren reach a deeper depth in the Lord than that, there is still more.

Deuteronomy 29:29 says

The secret things belong  to the Lord our God,

but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever,

that we may follow all the words of this law.

Whatever has been given already is for me and my future generations. If they are continually seeking out the Lord, more will be revealed to them and that is more available to future generations.

So I pray right now, Lord, give each one reading this more hunger for you, more intimacy of you, more revelation of your goodness so that we can leave a good legacy for our future generations.