Jeremiah 35:18-19
Then Jeremiah turned to the Recabites and said, "This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: 'You have obeyed your ancestor Jehonadab in every respect, following all his instructions.' Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies, the God of Israel, says; 'Jehonadab son of Recab will always have descendants who serve me.'"
This is a wonderful promise to the Recabites, to know that they would always have family who serve the Lord, however far their neighbors stray. Even in the midst of a wayward and perverse nation, there would be those who remain strong in the Lord.
O my Father, please grant me and my late husband, who loved you dearly and followed you closely, this same blessing, that our children and grandchildren and their children after them would know and serve You.
Teach me to obey all that You have commanded me; to love You with all my heart and soul and mind and strength, and to love others as I love myself. Father, I have loved myself with a very self-centered and self-serving love--now teach me to love others with this same focus, to be other-centered and other-serving, regardless of the cost to myself.
And continue to draw all my children and grandchildren and their children after them to yourself, that they all may know, love and serve only You.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
