There are two ways to become a grandparent you are getting old, or you are about to be rejuvenated ( renewed). The world tells us that becoming a grandparent is becoming more lively and being a parent without all of the responsibilities.
The Bible speaks of grandparents as being very important figures in the family. There are biblical responsibilities of the grandparent. Grandparents are to pronounce blessings over their grandchildren. Their words affect the family far more than we understand.
Grandparents should speak of God’s goodness to their grandchildren. It is good for our children to hear about examples of God’s faithfulness from someone other than their parents. Grandchildren are the crown of old age. Although children are proud of their parents, grandchildren are the reward of the grandparent.
Let us read and meditate upon the following Bible verses that tell us about grandchildren being a blessing in the family.
Proverbs 17:6 “Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers”
Psalm 128:6 “Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel”
Isaiah 46:4 “And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you”
Psalm 145:4 “One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts”
Genesis 28:14 “And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed”
Genesis 31:55 “And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place”
Psalm 92:14 “They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing”
Ephesians 5:21 “Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God”
Exodus 20:12 “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee”
Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it”
Colossians 3:13 “Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye”
Deuteronomy 4:9 “Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons”
1 Timothy 5:8 “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel”
Proverbs 16:31 “The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness”
Isaiah 59:21 “As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord ; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord , from henceforth and for ever”
Psalm 103:17 “But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children”
Exodus 20:5 “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me”
1 John 4:19 “We love him, because he first loved us”
Proverbs 13:22 “A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just”
Ephesians 5:33 “Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband”
Psalm 37:25 “I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread”
Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it”
2 Timothy 1:5 “When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also”
Joshua 24:15 “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord , choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord”
Proverbs 6:20 “My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother”
Ephesians 6:4 “And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord”
1 Timothy 5:4 “But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God”
1 John 4:20 “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”
Luke 6:31 “And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise”
1 Timothy 3:4 “One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity”Genesis 45:10 “And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast”
Psalm 90:12 “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom”
1 Corinthians 13:7 “Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things”
Ephesians 3:15 “Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named”
Genesis 48:9 “And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them”
Psalm 133:1 “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity”
Exodus 10:2 “And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the Lord”
Proverbs 17:25 “A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him”
Proverbs 11:29 “He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart”
Romans 8:15 “For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father”
Deuteronomy 5:16 “Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee”
1 Corinthians 13:13 “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity”
Genesis 2:24 “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh”
Colossians 3:19 “Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them”
Proverbs 23:24 “The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him”
Genesis 48:11 “And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed”
Matthew 15:4 “For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death”
2 Corinthians 6:18 “And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty”
1 Corinthians 1:10 “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment”
Acts 10:2 “A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway”
1 Peter 3:7 “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered”
Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me”
Proverbs 12:4 “A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones”
Genesis 31:28 “And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing”
Ephesians 5:28 “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself”
Genesis 1:28 “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth”
Proverbs 15:27 “He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live”
Genesis 18:19 “For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord , to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him”
Proverbs 10:1 “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother”
Proverbs 17:17 “A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity”
2 Kings 17:41 “So these nations feared the Lord , and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day”
Colossians 3:20 “Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord”
Psalm 128:3 “Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table”
Ephesians 2:8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God”
Proverbs 1:8 “My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother”
1 Chronicles 16:11 “Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually”
Acts 16:31 “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house”
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”
Psalm 107:41 “Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock”
Proverbs 15:20 “A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother”
Romans 12:9 “Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good”
