Original Artwork

A Father's Heritage

Artist: Michael Dudash

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"Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation." Joel 1:3 NIV

ARTIST NOTE:

A Father’s Heritage was painted as a result of my long felt desire to create a painting based on the precept of a father reading God’s Word to his children. If we look beyond the obvious warmth and intimacy of the moment, we see illustrated a far more important event in the lives of the children and the father. The father is fulfilling his role as the one who is responsible to introduce his children to the Word of God. The seed of the Word is planted into fertile ground and now the Lord has the opportunity to make the seeds grow in His time, bearing the fruit of God’s Spirit.

It’s the responsibility of all of us, particularly as parents, to make sure that our children grow up with a love and a respect for what God says and to know that in life the Bible is our greatest source of wisdom, comfort and joy. The lives of the hundreds of characters that fill the Bible (a few of which are illustrated here) bring this Word to life and help make it relevant to parents as well as their children.