Sons & Daughters

Verse 32: Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand…Verse 41: You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. 

This is one of the saddest results of forsaking the Lord – that of losing our children to foreigners.

Just taking this verse literally, we already see the influence of other cultures and nations on the faces of our offspring.  Parents grow weary from watching their kids slip away into depression, suicide, destructive habits and even violence, but these same parents have no power to help their children.

One of the blessings from following after God and his ways is that our children receive an inheritance from generation to generation. The same is true, for those who turn their backs on God, regarding an inheritance – but what their kids receive instead is the reaping of the disobedience of their fathers and mothers.

When we forsake what we know to be right and choose to disobey God’s commands, our children suffer. 

The only power we can offer them is to turn ourselves back to the Lord, establish his rule in our home, love him with all of our hearts, and love our neighbors as ourselves.

Then His power will be present, and we’ll see our sons and daughters turn and walk towards the light as well – no longer oppressed and under the influence of foreigners – but under the wings of God’s mercy and grace.