A long obedience in the same direction. Watching covenantal righteousness and mercy come to your children’s children is not an abstraction, a dry datum out of your catechism or doctrine class. This is one of God’s great promises, and it tastes just like the honey made by celestial bees allowed to forage in heaven’s clover. This is such a precious promise—a long obedience in the same direction. And no, this is not “works.” Obedience, like everything else that is good, is the gift of God, lest any should boast.
