I've been thinking about lineage.
The Lord does not plant individuals. He plants lineages.
He never introduced Himself as the God of Abraham alone. He said, "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." Three generations in one name. A promise is not proven in the one who receives it. It is proven in the one who inherits it.
Moses parted the sea, but Joshua crossed the Jordan. Elijah called down fire, but Elisha did twice the miracles. David built the kingdom, but Solomon built the house. Paul planted everywhere, yet wrote to Timothy, "my dearly beloved son," because what outlives an apostle is a son who caught the spirit.
This is not only a Bible pattern. It is how creation moves forward.
Humphry Davy was already a great chemist when a bookbinder's apprentice named Michael Faraday wrote asking for a job. Davy took him on. Asked later what his greatest discovery was, Davy is said to have answered: "Michael Faraday."
Johan Cruyff coached a skinny midfielder named Pep Guardiola. Cruyff is gone, but his football is still playing.
Fatherhood was never only biological. It is a transfer of spirit.
And the design does not end here. Even in the forever there are canopy levels. "One star differeth from another star in glory." 1 Corinthians 15:41. Heaven is layered, not flat. God is not against height. He is against height without lineage.
So life needs two kinds of relationships.
Horizontal: brothers and sisters, iron sharpening iron.
Vertical: someone above you whose voice carries weight, and someone below you into whom you are pouring. A man with only horizontal relationships is a plateau. A man with only vertical ones is a pole. God builds trees.
"Though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers." 1 Corinthians 4:15. Instructors are plentiful. Fathers are rare.
That is why I fear what my industry is doing right now. Companies are quietly deleting junior roles. Let the tools do the junior work, keep the seniors. It sounds efficient. It is a lineage ending in one generation.
Because the son does not only need the father. The father needs the son. Nobody becomes a father with no one to father. Cut the bottom of the tree and you have not saved the tree. You have dated its death.
The future is only secured where progeny is sustained.
That is the gospel in one line. The Father sent the Son. The Son, "the firstborn among many brethren," brings sons and daughters to glory and is "not ashamed to call them brethren." Hebrews 2:11
Find someone to learn from. Find someone to pour into. Be a son. Become a father.
Whatever you build, build it with a successor in the room.
#Faith #Leadership #Mentorship #Lineage
The Lord does not plant individuals. He plants lineages.
He never introduced Himself as the God of Abraham alone. He said, "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." Three generations in one name. A promise is not proven in the one who receives it. It is proven in the one who inherits it.
Moses parted the sea, but Joshua crossed the Jordan. Elijah called down fire, but Elisha did twice the miracles. David built the kingdom, but Solomon built the house. Paul planted everywhere, yet wrote to Timothy, "my dearly beloved son," because what outlives an apostle is a son who caught the spirit.
This is not only a Bible pattern. It is how creation moves forward.
Humphry Davy was already a great chemist when a bookbinder's apprentice named Michael Faraday wrote asking for a job. Davy took him on. Asked later what his greatest discovery was, Davy is said to have answered: "Michael Faraday."
Johan Cruyff coached a skinny midfielder named Pep Guardiola. Cruyff is gone, but his football is still playing.
Fatherhood was never only biological. It is a transfer of spirit.
And the design does not end here. Even in the forever there are canopy levels. "One star differeth from another star in glory." 1 Corinthians 15:41. Heaven is layered, not flat. God is not against height. He is against height without lineage.
So life needs two kinds of relationships.
Horizontal: brothers and sisters, iron sharpening iron.
Vertical: someone above you whose voice carries weight, and someone below you into whom you are pouring. A man with only horizontal relationships is a plateau. A man with only vertical ones is a pole. God builds trees.
"Though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers." 1 Corinthians 4:15. Instructors are plentiful. Fathers are rare.
That is why I fear what my industry is doing right now. Companies are quietly deleting junior roles. Let the tools do the junior work, keep the seniors. It sounds efficient. It is a lineage ending in one generation.
Because the son does not only need the father. The father needs the son. Nobody becomes a father with no one to father. Cut the bottom of the tree and you have not saved the tree. You have dated its death.
The future is only secured where progeny is sustained.
That is the gospel in one line. The Father sent the Son. The Son, "the firstborn among many brethren," brings sons and daughters to glory and is "not ashamed to call them brethren." Hebrews 2:11
Find someone to learn from. Find someone to pour into. Be a son. Become a father.
Whatever you build, build it with a successor in the room.
#Faith #Leadership #Mentorship #Lineage
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Wowwww
This is too true!
Such a beautiful piece
Thank you sir 🙏
Yes! True. God is transgenerational in his dealing with men. And human society is designed to run on the system of continuity; otherwise, righteous beliefs, ideals, and ideas will die naturally.