I was talking with a friend recently over lunch about how easy it is for us to fall into the common pattern of short-sightedness. Specifically, we were talking about money. How are money and short-sightedness connected?
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous. Proverbs 13:22 (NKJV)
I’ve given this passage a lot of thought over the last couple of years. It seems that our modern mentality is that we should try to make enough money to pay for our own existence until we die — and this is for the people that are planning ahead! Those who aren’t planning ahead are living a lifestyle of debt that says, “somehow this will get paid for later.”
And yet God’s plan for “good” people is that we are not only not just thinking about paying for our own lives, but that we are building something that is transferable — not just to the next generation, but to the generation after that!
There’s much more to say about this subject, so perhaps we’ll pick it up again in future posts, but for today: how are you building something that can be transferred to future generations?