The Parents' Faithlessness
I hope we all know the absolute importance of parents in the lives of their children. I am sure that all of us can look back on our lives and see things that our parents did or didn't do that had a huge effect on our lives. Perhaps they led us to Jesus, but maybe they were alcoholics or drug addicts, and their addiction made our lives very difficult. The same is true for us and our children. What have we done or what are we doing that will have a lasting impact of them, for good or for evil? The Israelites failed to enter the Promised Land after hearing the report of the men who were sent into the land to spy it out before their invasion. Therefore, God sentenced all of the people to wander in the wilderness until all of that generation had died. (Numbers 14:33) God told them that their children would be like shepherds wandering in the wilderness those 40 years. In that way they would pay for the faithlessness of their parents, until all of the parents' generation had died. I ...