Heritage from the Lord

Heritage from the Lord

By Rev. Lonnie C. Crowe

Psalm 127:3-4 (NKJV)
³  Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward.
⁴  Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one's youth.

 
Psalm 139:13-16 (NKJV)
¹³  For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb.
¹⁴  I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
¹⁵  My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
¹⁶  Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.

Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV)
¹¹  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Matthew 19:13-15 (NKJV)
¹³  Then little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them.
¹⁴  But Jesus said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven."
¹⁵  And He laid His hands on them and departed from there.

Father God, You see each child, even me, as a gift from heaven,

A reward, a promise for the present and the future.

I am amazed at humanness, the culmination of creation.

I see the awesomeness of my Creator in hearts that beat,

In limbs that move, in blood that surges.

Oh, God, Creator and Sustainer of the Universe,

Your Spirit touches my spirit,

Your joy strengthens me,

Your peace calms my seas.

We are truly fearfully and wonderfully made,

Fashioned by the Almighty.

Before the foundation of the world,

You destined each of us for fellowship in heavenly places.

We have a future and a hope.

You are Father of All,

And in Your  Father’s heart, You call, “Come, come, come unto Me.”

May we remember our Creator. 

May we never partake of the worldly apple—

That apple that cries out from one, “deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs

and structural biases have to be changed.”

And from another who decries our “antiquated” notions:

“Do you have any idea what year it is?”

 “Did you fall down, hit your head and think you woke up in the 1950s or the 1890s?”

“Should we call for a doctor?”

And a third insists that atrocious infanticide is only for medical research that will benefit humanity.

It is when we partake of that apple,

That in our hardened hearts,

We will condone the dismembering and marketing of infants,

The modern sacrifices to Molech.

Think, think, think.

What good can come from sacrificing the future to preserve the present?