Our search for significance can often become really pathetic.

Now that his season home run record has been broken, how long will people remember Roger Maris? Who was the senior vice president of General Motors in 1975? Who were the two senators from Virginia in 1910? What are the names of those who climbed Mount Everest in 1991?

Few of us could answer more than one or two of these questions, if at all, and yet in their day their names were all over the most popular newspapers and magazines. Children teach us the profound and simple message that what popular society values most grows irrelevant and even comical when confronted by the inexorable weight of history.

Gary L. Thomas writes, “What often gets our least attention -- a heritage of faith -- is the only thing we actually leave behind.”

God said of Abraham, “For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his household after him to keep the way of the Lord…” (Genesis 18:19).