A Prayer for the Subsequent Era to Be Amazed By God
By Megan Evans
“…After them one other technology rose up who didn’t know the Lord or the works he had finished for Israel.” – Judges 2:10b (CSB)
I recall a baby 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 This candy lady was 11 years outdated and had by no means been inside a church earlier than, and she or he had by no means opened a Bible.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 fundamental understanding of creation was utterly 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 understanding their Creator and Redeemer? The thought frightens me, and maybe you as effectively.
That week, I discovered concerning the fragility of every technology 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 baby to whom Christianity was so overseas. Having been raised within the church, I had taken fundamental 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 in the course of the lifetimes of the elders who outlived Joshua and who had skilled all of the works the Lord had finished 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 technology was additionally gathered to their ancestors. After them one other technology rose up who didn’t know the Lord or the works he had finished for Israel.”
How was it attainable for a technology of Israelites to develop up not acknowledging God or the mighty issues He had finished for Israel? Their ancestors had been free of slavery and led via the Purple Sea by Moses, and Joshua led their relations throughout the Jordan River into the promised land! Maybe the extraordinary had simply turn out to be atypical. 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 all over the world as we speak, an increasing number of kids, teenagers, and younger adults are in awe of humanity–even celebrating opposition to God. However is that this shocking when adults are doing the exact same issues? If we wish the subsequent technology to be amazed by God, it begins with you and me. Attending to know God via His Phrase and studying His nice love and superb works fosters awe and a each day reliance that may 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 the planet round us.
Whereas watching the world push God away can generally really feel irritating and overwhelming, we aren’t helpless. Particular person influence can really feel extraordinarily small, but we should do not forget that we serve a mighty God. Jesus loves the misplaced, and so ought to we. He’s very a lot nonetheless at work on the planet as we speak and invitations each believer to take part. He’s rising His Kingdom, and the most effective is but to come back!
Relatively 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 finished in our lives and all through humanity and to show God’s Phrase to the subsequent technology. 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 technology—kids but to be born—would possibly know” (verse 6). Be inspired. So let’s inform the subsequent technology that God loves them, train the Bible, and discuss concerning the distinction it makes to observe Jesus.
Let’s pray:
Father God, fall on us and stir the hearts of this new technology to obtain your Son, Jesus Christ, as their Lord and Savior. Stir my coronary heart and open my eyes to misplaced folks in my each day stroll of life. Train me be your disciple and disciple-maker. I wish to inform of my relationship with Jesus to others, together with youth, and I confess I want your energy. Give me boldness and readability as I converse of your love and mighty works in my each day conversations. You could have commissioned me to take your gospel message all through the earth (Matthew 28:19), and a technology of youngsters and adults in my neighborhood want discipleship. I consider you will have positioned me precisely the place you wish to use me as we speak and have geared up me with a singular persona, abilities, and skills you should use to achieve the subsequent technology. Embolden and present me alternatives to show your love, acts, and instructions deliberately.
In Jesus’ Identify, amen.
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