Genesis 4:17 (NKJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son\u2014Enoch.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Every father has a desire to leave a lasting legacy for his children, a heritage that can continue after they\u2019ve left. Maybe because of the curse on Cain and maybe because he didn\u2019t want his son to live the life of a vagabond and a roamer, Cain, therefore, built a city for his son and called it by his son\u2019s name. This must have been an extraordinary feat and a great achievement for Cain; the only problem was that the heritage was very limiting. Cain left a city for his son in his son\u2019s name, but what spiritual legacy did he leave Enoch?<\/p>\n\n\n\n May we labor not just to leave a physical legacy for our children but a special legacy. May we show them areas of our personal weaknesses and personal failures; and teach them not to fall into the same shortcomings. May we work to bequeath to them, a heritage that has eternal implications and dimensions. May we prepare our children not to fall into the same ditches that we fell into at their age. This is a more lasting legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Lord, thank you for opening my eyes to see what I need to make a priority in leaving a heritage for my children. While leaving a financial or material legacy isn\u2019t bad, Lord help me build and invest into them, a legacy that cannot be taken away, even an eternal legacy. Give the strength and vigor to do this earnestly, while I have the opportunity, in Jesus name. Amen.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Genesis 4:17 (NKJV) \u2018And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son\u2014Enoch.\u2019 Every father has a desire to leave a lasting legacy for his children, a heritage that can continue after they\u2019ve left. Maybe because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-genesis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Genesis.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4853,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions\/4853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}