Today's promise: God celebrates family
Has Your Family Been a
Blessing?
"The godly walk with
integrity; blessed are their children after them."
Proverbs 20:7 NLT
A heritage of blessings
What better motivations
exist for us to be people of integrity than that our children will be blessed
for it! Parents who are godly, who live with integrity and truthfulness, are
wonderful examples to their children. Granted, this does not always guarantee
that children will turn out perfectly, but children will nevertheless receive a
great blessing from having such parents.
So what does it mean to
"walk with integrity"? It means that "walk the talk." In
other words, plenty of people know the right thing to do, but when the right
time comes, they don't do it. They know they should tell the truth, for
example, but if telling the truth will hurt, they opt for a lie instead.
Children learn best from models they see and hear, but if they learn to bend
the truth whenever needed, they set themselves up for problems in life. But if
they learn to follow God and walk their faith, then they will have been greatly
blessed.
WISE WAYS: Are
you willing to walk with integrity in front of your children or those over whom
you have influence? What kinds of blessings will they have from following your
example?
Today, Lord, help me walk
with integrity so as to be a good example to others.
Adapted from The One Year® Book of Proverbs by Neil S.
Wilson, Tyndale House Publishers (2002), entry for February 20
Happy families… own a
surface similarity of good cheer. For one thing, they like each other, which is
quite a different thing from loving. For another, they have, almost always, one
entirely personal treasure—a sort of purse full of domestic humor which they
have accumulated against rainy days. This humor is not necessarily witty. The
jokes may be incomprehensible to outsiders, and the laughter springs from the
most trivial of sources. But the jokes and the laughter belong entirely to the
family.
PHYLLIS McGINLEY
PHYLLIS McGINLEY
Content is derived from
the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
Publishing House
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