FOR THEM
Today's reading: Genesis 12-15

There's nothing I like more than receiving gifts, accolades and pats on the back for a job well done.

Well, that's not true...there is one thing I like more than getting blessed myself, and that's seeing my son blessed, applauded and encouraged.

I think I'm a little like Abraham on that account.

"Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, I am going to give this land to your offspring! And Abram built an altar there to commemorate the Lord's visit." Genesis 12:7 NLT

After packing up all he owned. After saying good-byes to all his family and friends. After being told by the Lord to move, and to move a substantial distance away from all that was comfortable and known to him, now God's telling Abram that the blessing of land would go to his seed.

A seed he had yet to know. A child he had still to see born. A successor he had yet to even name.

Abram's desire that his child know the Lord was more important than anything the Lord might be willing to give himself.

And that's my desire.

I want to serve the Lord wholeheartedly and enthusiastically so I may be able to pass that on to my son. I want him to have a zeal for God. I want him to know God personally. I want my child to inherit any and all blessings God's got lined up for him to receive.

Oh, don't get me wrong--I want the blessings He has in store for me, too. But then again, our God's quite big enough to bless us both, isn't He?