{"id":8679,"date":"2024-06-24T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T07:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=8679"},"modified":"2024-05-07T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T23:24:57","slug":"proverbs-207-the-righteous-man-walks-in-his-integrity-his-children-are-blessed-after-him-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=8679","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs 20:7: &#8220;The righteous man walks in his integrity; \/ His children are blessed after him.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God gives every human parent the opportunity to do something great but it requires faithfulness. Malaysian bamboo farmers know about faithfulness. In Malaysia there is a strain of very valuable, giant bamboo that takes great patience and wisdom to cultivate. Here is how they do it:<\/p>\n<p><b>Year 1:<\/b> plant, water, fertilize = nothing happens.<\/p>\n<p><b>Year 2:<\/b> water, cultivate, fertilize = still nothing visible happens.<\/p>\n<p><b>Year 3:<\/b> water, cultivate, fertilize = still absolutely no signs of growth or that the work is accomplishing anything.<\/p>\n<p><b>Year 4:<\/b> more water, more cultivation, more fertilizer = still absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n<p><b>Year 5:<\/b> water, cultivate, fertilize = amazingly, the bamboo shoots up 60 feet in 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>Under ideal conditions, the giant bamboo can grow 60 cm (about 2 feet) per day. This is an astounding amount of growth, from absolutely no growth for four years to the height of a 6-story building in one month. So how do we lead our family for the next 40 years? We do it be being a godly parent today, and then tomorrow, and then the next day, and so on and so on . . .<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;LORD, please empower us and help us to be faithful today as You are faithful to us.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God gives every human parent the opportunity to do something great but it requires faithfulness. Malaysian bamboo farmers know about faithfulness. In Malaysia there is a strain of very valuable, giant bamboo that takes great patience and wisdom to cultivate. Here is how they do it: Year 1: plant, water, fertilize = nothing happens. Year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8683,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions\/8683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}