VERSE FOR TODAY: Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servant of the word (Luke 1:1,2, New International Version).
HYMN FOR TODAY: "Faith of Our Fathers"
"Remember that vase that's been passed down from generation to generation? a little asked her mother. "Yes," the mother replied, "What about it?" "Well the little girl said. "This generation just dropped it." When I was a young girl, I remember her taking eggs and strawberries to the parsonage. At her funeral the preacher used the verse, "She hath done what she could." Her daughter---my mother-- was also faithful to the Lord. A third generation Christian, I endeavor to minister through the written word. One of my nephews is a gospel songwriter.
As families pass clothing and furniture and heirlooms down from generation to generation, so has the gospel been "handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the Word. . ." Are we handing it down to the next generation---or did our generation "drop" it?
PRAYER THOUGHT: Lord, help us to realize that our children won't remember so much what we say as what we do. Let us leave them something lasting and eternal that they can pass on to their children. In the name of Jesus, our Savior, we pray. Amen.
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