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This radical thought and life principle is found in the writings and life of Paul: 2 Corinthians 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Don't expect to hear many sermons on that verse, friend. Preachers today are much more interested in the texts which (they think) legitimatize their salaries. One pastor explained that the "double honor" in 1 Tim. 5:17 meant that preachers were to make twice the ordinary salary.
quote:"I grew up in a time when you wanted to save so that your children would have a better life than you had. Now, in all the Anglo-Saxon economies, people don't seem to want to help the next generation, they want to cheat it, by leaving a legacy of worn-out capital...and debt."
Each year, America's dollar declines. Each year, Americans own less of their own national debt...less of their own houses...and less of their own future earnings. Little by little the patrimony of future voters slips away, replaced by obligations. So great has the debt load become that it cannot be settled in a single generation - even if that generation were willing. Instead, the blessings that one generation enjoys are passed onto the next generation as a curse. A child born in America in 1900 came into the world naked and free of debt. Today, he pops into the world and is immediately swaddled in chains of debts. All his life he will have to pay them - debts from bonuses paid to government employees in 1986...from bombs dropped in 2003...from boondoggles built in 1995....checks written in 1974...promises made to old people in 2002... the expenses of hurricanes in 2005...and so on. The poor child will have to drag around with him the entire pathetic history of America's financial decline.
So, let's leave our children a spiritual legacy and, if God permits, something more than a bunch of unpaid debts.
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