A Prayer for the Subsequent Era to Be Amazed By God
By Megan Evans
“…After them one other era rose up who didn’t know the Lord or the works he had accomplished for Israel.” – Judges 2:10b (CSB)
I recall a toddler named Tilly, whom I taught one summer season throughout Trip Bible Faculty. This candy lady was 11 years outdated and had by no means been inside a church earlier than, and he or she had by no means opened a Bible. Whereas this broke my coronary heart, what pained me probably the most was that she had by no means even heard of Adam and Eve. This foundational constructing block of religion and primary understanding of creation was fully lacking in her life. A neighbor invited and introduced her VBS that week, and I keep in mind her starvation for God’s Phrase. She not solely discovered of the Bible that week, she requested Jesus to be her Savior. Like Tilly, how many individuals are rising up with out figuring out their Creator and Redeemer? The thought frightens me, and maybe you as nicely.
That week, I discovered concerning the fragility of every era and why it’s important to share God’s Phrase and inform of His wonders. As much as that time, I had by no means met a toddler to whom Christianity was so overseas. Having been raised within the church, I had taken primary biblical groundwork as a right. This encounter not solely opened my eyes, it additionally opened my coronary heart.
Joshua 24:31 says, “Israel worshiped the Lord all through Joshua’s lifetime and throughout the lifetimes of the elders who outlived Joshua and who had skilled all of the works the Lord had accomplished for Israel.” However Judges 2:8-10 explains, “Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died on the age of 110. They buried him within the territory of his inheritance, in Timnath-heres, within the hill nation of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. That entire era was additionally gathered to their ancestors. After them one other era rose up who didn’t know the Lord or the works he had accomplished for Israel.”
How was it doable for a era of Israelites to develop up not acknowledging God or the mighty issues He had accomplished for Israel? Their ancestors had been free of slavery and led by way of the Purple Sea by Moses, and Joshua led their relations throughout the Jordan River into the promised land! Maybe the extraordinary had simply change into peculiar. Did they cease telling these accounts to at least one one other or, most significantly, their kids?
Does this grieve you because it does me? As I look around the globe immediately, increasingly kids, teenagers, and younger adults are in awe of humanity–even celebrating opposition to God. However is that this stunning when adults are doing the exact same issues? If we would like the subsequent era to be amazed by God, it begins with you and me. Attending to know God by way of His Phrase and studying His nice love and wonderful works fosters awe and a day by day reliance that can naturally spill into our attitudes, phrases, and actions. As well as, we will ask the Lord to point out us alternatives for intentional ministry and disciple-making on this planet round us.
Whereas watching the world push God away can typically really feel irritating and overwhelming, we aren’t helpless. Particular person affect can really feel extraordinarily small, but we should keep in mind that we serve a mighty God. Jesus loves the misplaced, and so ought to we. He’s very a lot nonetheless at work on this planet immediately and invitations each believer to take part. He’s rising His Kingdom, and the very best is but to come back!
Moderately than rising complacent by the overwhelm of headlines proclaiming the world’s ethical decline, let’s proclaim the goodness of God. Psalm 78, for instance, reminds us to speak concerning the lovely issues God has accomplished in our lives and all through humanity and to show God’s Phrase to the subsequent era. The psalmist implores us to not be fearful however to reward God and share what we’ve discovered from the previous so that they, too, would possibly put their confidence in God. Why? “…So {that a} future era—kids but to be born—would possibly know” (verse 6). Be inspired. So let’s inform the subsequent era that God loves them, train the Bible, and speak concerning the distinction it makes to comply with Jesus.
Let’s pray:
Father God, fall on us and stir the hearts of this new era to obtain your Son, Jesus Christ, as their Lord and Savior. Stir my coronary heart and open my eyes to misplaced individuals in my day by day stroll of life. Educate me how one can be your disciple and disciple-maker. I wish to inform of my relationship with Jesus to others, together with youth, and I confess I would like your energy. Give me boldness and readability as I communicate of your love and mighty works in my day by day conversations. You’ve gotten commissioned me to take your gospel message all through the earth (Matthew 28:19), and a era of youngsters and adults in my group want discipleship. I consider you’ve positioned me precisely the place you wish to use me immediately and have geared up me with a singular character, skills, and talents you should use to achieve the subsequent era. Embolden and present me alternatives to show your love, acts, and instructions deliberately.
In Jesus’ Identify, amen.
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