It is noteworthy to know that there is a trait in Abraham that he passed unto his son, Isaac. Abraham was noted to be a friend of God because he always obeyed God without questioning, even when the commands of the Lord were at times humanly speaking, extreme.
Instructions like, leave your fathers' house and proceed to a land I would show you even when he didn't know who God was, he obeyed without asking questions.
When he got a son through Haggai and Sarah later told him to send Ishmael, his first son away, he restrained but the moment God asked him to obey his wife, he didn't question him at all, he sent Ishmael off.
When God asked for Isaac as a sacrifice, he also did not question but promptly obeyed.
These acts are not just a virtue but a discipline which can be learned and unlearned, Abraham learnt the act and art of willful obedience and these skills probably came from the things he experienced in his younger days though the bible remained silent on it but from the life of his son we see a prototype of this evolution of act and art.
Isaac was old enough for marriage, the father sent a servant to get him someone to marry and Isaac never protested, he merely obeyed, likewise during famine, a repeat of what happened during his father's days, he wanted to go to Egypt where things were okay physically but God restrained him and asked him to stay in Gerar.
Humanly speaking, it can be likened to signing his death warrant because as a man who owned cattle, he needs the grass to sustain them, famine automatically wipes off the vegetation, thereby wiping out his cattle,but Isaac chose to look beyond the physical realm and the reality around him but focused on God who is able to sustain him in all realms and the reward was overwhelming.
This shows that the virtues we learn and imbibe from the most high God can be passed on to our children deliberately so that the blessings of God upon us can also be available to them.
Our children need to be taught these virtues because though we have obtained blessings from God due to our obedience, our children also have to show same level of obedience to inherit and enjoy the realities of these blessings, this is necessary because after God acknowledged to Isaac that he has been blessed because of his father's walk with Him, God proceeded to try Isaac to know his heart and validate the inheritance to him.
Therefore, it is not enough to accumulate wealth for our kids or send them to the best schools,we must teach them the invaluable lessons and inculcate in them the virtues that would ensure that the blessings they inherit lasts.
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