A LEGACY OF PEACE

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.  Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you.  If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.  And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.”

John 14:27-29 KJV

A mother said to her daughter “I have been saving money for years when your sister and brother sent me checks”.  The daughter asked her mother why she had been saving all that money.  The mother replied “Because if I don’t leave you and your sister and brother money when I die, I have failed you”.

I submit to you on the authority of the Word of God that having money is not the answer.  It’s nice to have it and we do need it to pay our bills and buy the things our children need.  However, that doesn’t prove we love our children.  What our children need is unconditional love and peace in our home.

There are children who run and hide when they hear their parents argue because they are afraid of the yelling and violence.  If we want our children to know we love them, we need to love them unconditionally just as our Heavenly Father loves us.  God loves us even when we hurt Him and fail Him.

We can leave our children material things but if we haven’t left them a legacy of peace and unconditional love, not only have we failed our children, we have hurt our precious Saviour.  Jesus loves children very much and it not only hurts Him when we mistreat our children it also upsets Him (Mark 10:14).

Joanne Lowe

June 7, 2015