VERSR FOR TODAY: So the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children (Psalm78:6, New International Version).
HYMN FOR TODAY: "I Love To Tell the Story"
WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD You may have played a little game called "Pass it On." If you were standing in line you would hit the child next to you and say, "Pass it on." Then that child would hit the next child, and the next, right in to the end of the line. It was a silly game, but it well illustrates the text for today. Each generation must pass on to the next generation must share it's knowledge and faith with the next.
That needs to be done both formally and informally. Of course, churches, Sunday schools, and youth meetings perform this function. But there is also a need for believers, individually and personally, to share in informal conversation with the young, their own experience with God and their own faith in God. Then it is more than story taught or a lesson passed down. Faith puts on flesh and becomes real. See this Holiday season it was just pass it on because your faith moves God! If you have been blessed by someone in the past who shared their faith with you, thank God for them. Then ask God to open your eyes to your opportunity. It may be your own children or your grandchildren. It may be a child who lives next door or fown the street. All you have to do us tell them what God had done for you; what faith means to you
PRAYER THOUGHTS: Forgive our failures, God Give us new opportunities and the wisdom to use them well. Let's us use our lives wisely for You'. Let others see Jesus in us. We pray in our Savior's name. Amen.
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