Generation Gap

God's Urgent Call
Called to Be Strong

Deborah and Barak

Judges 2:6-10. The Message

6-9 After Joshua had dismissed them, the People of Israel went off to claim their allotted territories and take possession of the land. The people worshiped God throughout the lifetime of Joshua and the time of the leaders who survived him, leaders who had been in on all of God’s great work that he had done for Israel. Then Joshua son of Nun, the servant of God, died. He was 110 years old. They buried him in his allotted inheritance at Timnath Heres in the hills of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.
10 Eventually, that entire generation died and was buried. Then another generation grew up that didn’t know anything of God or the work he had done for Israel.

For Reflection

Do you remember listening to stories about your past?  I not only remember them, but now I have to listen to my children tell stories about me! Embarrassing sometimes and heart rendering at others, these stories remind us of how we became who we are.

The generational gap in remembering who they are will eventually lead the People of Israel into their destruction.  They will lose their sense of history and religion.  They will forsake the Lord and become devoted to the world and quickly drawn to false gods and superstitions.  They will suffer in their ignorance.

Pray

Pray that your children and your children's children will come to have a sense of who they are in the light of God.  Pray that the next generations will hear and respond in obedience to God's will.