My Heritage Is Beautiful to Me

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;
Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.
Psalm 16:6

God has blessed me in a big way. The "lines" David is referring to seem to mean property lines or boundaries. In other words, God has given me a good property. He's blessed me with a good lot in life. This is so true. He's given me a Christian heritage. There are generations before me who have served God. What a blessing! This is something that is a help to me in so many ways.

However, I was made to wonder: what about the things in my heritage that aren't good. What about the witchcraft? What about the unhappy marriages? How do I deal with those type of things? They aren't beautiful. I'm sure that even the best heritages have some dark sides. Every human being has some failings. I believe that we need to look for the good in those before us and ask God to help us overcome the evil. He can help us break that bondage that those before us have had. He wants to give us freedom. He wants to bless us. He wants to break Satan's chain. However, this is not something that comes by accident. We need to seek God and ask Him to free us from the iniquity of those before us. If we don't, those things will continue to bind us.

Lord, I thank You for the blessing of a beautiful heritage, and I pray that You would deliver me from the iniquities of those before me. I want to live completely in Your freedom. I don't want to be bound by darkness and sin. I want to live a full, productive Christian life for You. Please show me any areas where I am not experiencing freedom in You. Help my family to all experience this freedom as well. Show me if there is anything in their lives that they need to be freed from. Thank You for the deliverance You've already given. I praise You for it.