Proverbs 3:1-2
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Those who make it a priority to remember what God has said and a regular practice of obeying His commands will live a long, happy life with peace generously drizzled all over it.
Honoring our forefathers improves the forecast.
This promise was not merely for a people living long ago in a land far away. It's import is echoed by Paul hundreds of years later in his epistle to the church at Ephesus.
Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Children of both the Old and New testament can bank on the fact that honoring our ancestors' greatest achievements of glorifying God and enjoying Him in their own towns is the best way to secure glorifying God and enjoying Him in our own.
"People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants." - Thomas B. Macaulay
"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." - Edmund Burke
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