A Multi-Generational Family Legacy

Proverbs 4:
1. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
2. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
3. For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

Isn’t this a beautiful picture of multi-generational instruction? Isn’t this what an enduring Family Legacy is all about – passing wisdom on from one generation to the next? And because it is wisdom being passed on, all the benefits that attend wisdom go with it! Now it may be true that your father did not leave you a legacy of wisdom, but that doesn’t need to stop you from starting now! Perhaps in your distant past there was faithful instruction, but it was totally gone by the time of your father. Do not despair. Hezekiah’s father, Ahaz was a wicked king and yet Hezekiah could reach back to his fore fathers, David and Solomon and resurrect righteousness.

“Now . . . Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah . . . Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign . . . And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it . . . He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses. And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth:” (2 Kings 18:1-7a)

Notice that is was not really David and Solomon to which Hezekiah returned, but rather to faith in the LORD God. This is why you can do it too, from whatever moral condition you find yourself and your family, by faith in Jesus Christ and obedience to his commands, because through the power of his resurrection he makes all things new.