Today’s Thought “Breaking Generational Cursing” G. Ward

 

Numbers 14:18

“The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

 

If you haven’t ascribed to PBS’s greatest television series “Finding You Roots” (Sundays at 8 p.m. E.S.T.) you’ve exacerbated the complexity of mankind’s lack as his insistence to be recognized transcends current generations (Dr. Gates would appreciate that plug - cf. Jer.17:9). The show’s host, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Without consideration of ethnicity, Dr. Gates interrogates family genealogies of many entertainers along with those with national acclaim. Altogether, both good and bad history exists in every family. The charge (worthy of pursuit) however from any of those predecessors of questionable authority has demanded remembrance so as to not present similar error found in foreparents (cf. Phil.3:12-15).

To know who existed in our biological make-up is with reasonable intrigue, but the inspiration given from the whole of mankind’s spiritual lineage never disappoints while determining my capitulating unto greatness must fully embrace personal responsibility unto redemption given by the Savior whereby the biological parameter that limits is extinguished (cf. Jn.19:25-29).