How much do we really take from our parents through training and mentoring and how much is just what we might call genetics? Do I carry my own biological father inside me, his strengths and weaknesses a part of me no matter how hard I may have tried to be my own person when I was younger. I look to my own brothers and see in them some of the same traits I saw in my Dad as I grew up. We have all been given certain abilities from our parents, my own father gave to us the gift to see and understand most things mechanical as well as an inquisitive mind to use when we look around at our surroundings. Yet this gift, has it been planted in us by God, passed from generation to generation, put in place to serve Him and His plans?
If I look back to Verse # 4 in this chapter I see a truth: " Know that all lives are mine; the life of the parent as well as the life of the child: only those who sin will die."
Here in Ezekiel 18 V 5-18 it is good to see that God will hold us responsible only for our own sins, that we will not have to answer for the sins of our fathers (or Mothers) and that the fate of our children will not be effected by the righteousness or unrighteousness of our own lives.
Praise God that I may live a righteous life and serve Him.
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While I have thought about my genes and traits past down from my parents and grandparents, I have never really thought about the fact that my "genes" in some shape or form have been around since creation. There is a lot of baggage in my DNA! Ezekiel reminds us, that while we are linked to our families past, we are not governed and judged it.
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