Wouldn't you like to give a BIG inheritance to your kids?
There are three inheritances you will pass to your children. 1) Stuff 2) Family Culture
3) The Self Instinct.
First, let’s talk about "stuff." Your kids may inherit
your furniture, your savings, or your favorite dishes - and they will value
it, store it, sell it, or toss it out. The second inheritance, "family
culture" is not so easy to abandon. This includes such visible culture as
enthusiasm for sports, eating, and Sunday traditions. It also includes
invisible culture such as habits of total faith in hard times, family loyalty,
and love shown to aging parents. Family culture is about as hard to "throw
out" as the family photo album.
But even deeper yet, is the inheritance you will pass on of
"Self Instinct." The Self instinct is that which tends to look after
one's own interests despite its pain to others. Kids can inherit from their
moms and dads a high Self Instinct - which probably rarely invites a stranger
home for Sunday lunch, rarely gives money that isn't tax deductible, and
usually would be the last to volunteer to house a needy person in their
basement for a month. Or on the other hand, with God's help kids can inherit a
low self instinct.
If a parent is a servant to the migrant worker, to the
elderly, and the refugee, then these instincts of selflessness will weave
themselves into the very fabric of their child's identity. As a child sees,
they become.
What kind of inheritance is your child collecting today?
"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." (Matthew 5:5)
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