We are in a world where a lot of things happen. I have seen parents who had disputes and transferred the aggression from the people they were having dispute with down to their children.
I know of a man in my community who was a senior custom officer and retired with a bad report. After he passed away, the people he offended repaid him for what he did to them while he was serving by ensuring that his children didn't get any reasonable jobs as far as it was under their authority.
My mom told me that one of his son's went for a job interview, in the process the man asked him about his family, and he spilled without hesitation, little did he know that that was going to be a setback.
When the man heard his surname, he asked for clarity on who his father was, when he verified it. He immediately sent the man out of his office. That was how the man lost the opportunity for just mentioning his father's name.
Such a pathetic situation. Each time I remember his family's story, I am careful to live with caution while dealing with people because no one knows what the future holds.
Legally, everyone is supposed to carry his/her cross. The person who commits an offence is supposed to be the one to suffer the consequences and after that, it is finished.
But the reverse is the case, people hate from parents down to children and sometimes even grandchildren.
There's nothing wrong with punishing whosoever wrongs you but taking it down to his children or child simply because they came out of his loins is wrong.
The world we live in is mysterious. There is nothing that happens for nothing. The challenges many families are facing in the world today can be traced to something someone in the family did and it was not fully atoned for.
Some parents lived carelessly and perished and years later karma fell on their children. These things are reality. I know a lot of you have either heard or seen such cases.
We can see an instance from the case of Adam and Eve story that we all know, the two sinned but their descendants partook of their punishments.
Thanks to God it is written somewhere in the Bible that "The soul that sins, it is the soul that shall die." Correcting that previous law.
Because a child partakes of his parents blessing doesn't mean the child should partake of the curses as well. Moreover, children get blessings from their parents as a result of their submission. Blessings are mostly earned, it's not free.
No child should partake of their parent's misfortune and no parents should suffer from the sins of their children. Let everyone suffer or enjoy his/her deeds. For me, this is true justice. Whether or not our anger is satisfied, it must never pass beyond the person who did it to us.
