PART 2: GOD'S EXPECTATION FROM CHILDREN IN EVERY HOME

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Our concern in this study should therefore be how can we do it that our posterity will constantly and consistently be known for goodly and godly virtues and values; how can we be fulfilled "posterity-wise"? 

This is very necessary because the ultimate desire of God for any marital union producing children has been expressly stated in the scripture. Let's see that divine desire from the Amplified Bible,

And did not God make [you and your wife] one [flesh]? ... And why [did God make you two] one? Because He sought a godly offspring [from your union]... Mal2v15

Whaoh! It doesn't matter what you are doing or not doing in your marriage, if you don't produce godly offspring, that marriage has not fulfilled divine intention. Let your children become doctors, lawyers, engineers, medical lab scientists, and what have you, but if they are godless, you have failed, by God's rating. So, getting your children godly should not be a secondary assignment. It should be your primary assignment. It should even come before their academics or cultural and social integrations. When we leave it to our pastors and the Sunday School teachers, we are shifting our responsibility and we are telling God who has given us the assignment that we are irresponsible.

Often times, we turn the searchlight on minister's children. But this expectation of God is not from ministers' home only. God expects godly seeds from every home, including your home and my home. Leave the minister's home alone and face your own assignment at making your posterity godly posterity. May God help us.

Jehoiada, a recognised high priest of Israel and the first priest to be buried in the tomb of the kings (2Chron.24:15-16) did it. He raised a son with enduring and undeterred godliness like himself. After his death, the king he laboured so much to guide on the path of godliness (2Chron.24:2) derailed, but Jehoiada's son, Zechariah, stood his righteous ground and was put to death for the faith of his father. This his godly seed continued to have a place in the Biblical history to the point that even Jesus himself in the New Testament referred to him as the last Old Testament martyr (2Chron.24:20-22, Luk11:51). May God who helped Jehoiada help us to do it too...

Part 3 comes up tomorrow