Our Posterity
Like arrows in a quiver that we send for all to see
Are those we call our children who are our posterity
Reflective of the character they've seen in us before
Sometimes a little less intense sometimes a little more
And sometimes not at all like us so it may often seem
As though they were a nightmare that destroyed our hoped for dream
But always bearing traits of us that cannot be denied
That will reveal what's truly there when they are pressed and tried
By circumstance that captures them in things they choose to do
That press them to the nth degree revealing what is true
Within their heart by standards they decide they will not bend
And Who it is they honor most Whose name they will defend
For though we've failed and faltered many times in life before
It's how we've chosen to get up that strikes our children more
As they've watched in the darkness what we've chosen here to do
And where we've chosen to put trust that helped us make it through
And thought they choose to wander like the first part that they saw
That second is what they'll reflect that fills our hearts with awe
As they return to what they've learned by watching us before
And by their own experience meet Him that we adore
Who like us had His children wander in a path unknown
Away from all the goodness and the glory they were shown
A path that brought them misery and anguish without end
Until they will arise to see the One Who was their Friend
Who walked with them each morning and each evening of each day
Throughout that perfect Garden where He meant for them to stay
But by their choice lost privy to for wanting to believe
The liar and the evil one who caused them both to leave
By what he placed within them when they gave to him their will
Effects of which we suffer under to this day and still
Though we see all the consequence we still give more to him
From weakness we inherited in heart from both of them
But as they turned to Jesus Who became their Sacrifice
So we today have also Him Who paid for us the Price
And as we their posterity allow His will in us
So will our children likewise be in making Him their Trust
Psalm 127:1-5; Proverbs 23:13; 29:15; 22:1-6