Repentance Clears The Air For Future Generations…..

God is full of compassion, unfailing love, & faithfulness. He is quick to forgive, but does not excuse the guilty. So what does this mean for us? It means when we “mess up”, we are to “fess up” to God. That’s what He expects from us. When we don’t, our sinful behavior is impressed on our children who repeat the same sinful be behavior, and if it isn’t dealt with, is passed on to their children. If God is so forgiving, and wanting to lavish us with His unfailing love, why are people so miserable and unfulfilled? The answer is simple. It’s because we fail to repent. We don’t see our own sinfulness as detrimental to our living. The longer it goes on, the worse things get. It’s our pride, our volitional rebelliousness to God (our sinful nature), that keeps us from experiencing God’s best for us. And in this process we tend to blame God for our own self-inflicted grief. If we make the decision to repent, we not only please God and help ourselves, but we clear the pathway for our children and grandchildren to be free of the burden we created and kept going. Repentance clears the air for future generations. It frees them from the smog they’d have to breathe that we created. Repentance is more than “I’m sorry”. It’s exactly what God wants. It’s exactly what we were created to be. And that is knowing God intimately; knowing He is forgiving because of His love for us. Knowing He’s just and ready to cancel the debt we created. Knowing God means knowing ourselves. Knowing God means repentance is required. Knowing God means knowing our place. Knowing God is everything. Pursue Him today, and put to death this generational sin that has been passed down in your family for generations. It starts with you, and stops with you as well.

5 Then the Lord came down in a cloud and stood there with him; and He called out His own name, Yahweh. 6 The Lord passed in front of Moses, calling out, “Yahweh! The Lord!The God of compassion and mercy!I am slow to angerand filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.7 I lavish unfailing love to a thousand generations.I forgive iniquity, rebellion, and sin.But I do not excuse the guilty.I lay the sins of the parents upon their children and grandchildren;the entire family is affected–even children in the third and fourth generations.” Exodus 34:5-7