Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm said: "Future historians will see best the multiple factors that led to the decline of America. But I suggest one of the major factors will be the failure to replace ourselves with enough stable children born to families with the ability to raise successful children." What Governor Lamm is talking about is heritage and our failure to receive it, embrace it, enrich it, and transmit it.

Thousands of years ago the prophet Jeremiah observed that his own people had loosened their hand from their heritage, let it fall and shatter. And it looks like we are doing the same. So, today, let's pause and look to Christ, our own heritage, and our own grip on things.

What Is A Heritage?

First of all, what is a heritage? In the text the Hebrew word for heritage me…