TUESDAY July 16, 2024
Tell Your Children About God’s Mighty Works
Tell your children about it, let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Joel 1:3
Parents, it is crucial to pass on the knowledge of the Lord to your children so that they pass it on to their children, and their children’s children. If there is a failure to teach your children the Scriptures, then when your children grow to become parents themselves, they will fail to pass on the knowledge of the Lord to their children––sad.
What happened to the children of Israel when the parents of that nation failed to teach their children about God? After Joshua died (the man called to be the spiritual leader of Israel after Moses), the Scriptures record that a godless generation arose:
When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD nor the work which He had done for Israel (Judges 2:10).
What had the parents and grandparents failed to do? They had failed to pass on, from one generation to another, the knowledge of God. They failed to teach their children and grandchildren about God’s mighty works in their deliverance from Egypt––all the miraculous events––the ten plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea on dry ground!
The responsibility to teach children God’s Word lies squarely with the parents. Teach your children the Word of God so they can grow up knowing and trusting God. Children who are left to themselves will grow up without knowing God. What hope do they have?
Parents, in what ways are you actively passing on the knowledge of the Lord to your children?
We will not hide them [the knowledge of God] from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.
~Psalm 78:4~
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