A man loves his great grandchildren by teaching his children to teach their children to teach their children. If you raise your children well, you will get to enjoy your grandchildren. If you do not raise your children well, you will have to raise your grandchildren.
You do not love your next generational neighbor by failing to discipline their parents. If you are called to love those living next door geographically, you are called to love those living next generationally. Your children need you to be their parents so that they can parent their children someday. Your grandchildren will be owed the discipline and instruction of the Lord which means you must provide it to their parents.
Psalm 78:4-7
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments.
You cannot teach your grandchildren to remember the Lord's commands by forgetting to obey them. You cannot teach a future generation the value of the Lord by refusing to acknowledge it before the current one.
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