Bible Verse of the Day Tuesday June 22nd 2021

Judges 2:10 After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel.

 Only two people, Joshua, and Caleb entered the Promised Land from the original group that left Egypt forty years earlier. The entire generation of people had died and was buried in the wilderness, except these two faithful people of God. This verse tells us that another generation grew up that did not know God and did not even know of all the great miracles that had occurred when God freed their mothers and fathers from bondage in Egypt.

We can glean many stories from this account.  One is how being faithful to God can bring us blessings that we could not even imagine—like Joshua and Caleb, standing for God even when those around us are going in the opposite direction. However, this commentary focuses on the importance of passing along the Gospel of Christ to future generations.

The children of Israel would drift away from God as one generation turned into another. The entire book of Judges is a story of that occurring generation after generation. The pattern was that the people would drift away from God, and God would send some form of punishment. The people would then cry out to God for forgiveness in their current sin, and God would send a Judge. But before the next generation came into maturity, they were right back where they were before. Drift into sin, cry out for forgiveness, God sends a Judge, the people come back to God, but then the next generation was right back on that same rocky path.

There is a severe flaw in this pattern, how the older generation was not helping the younger generation grow and mature in the ways of God. Either by failing to teach their children about God and His ways or failing to live for God themselves.

The book of Judges gives an account of the people of God turning their hearts from God coming under judgment, crying out to God, and delivered. The only setback is that this pattern occurred over and over again. One of the issues was that the older generation failed to teach the younger generation the ways of God. Are we as a parent or leaders in the church empowering the next generation with God’s Word and our surrender to Him, or are we protecting our achievements for our satisfaction?

The book of Judges stands witnesses and warns of what occurs when an older generation fails to take the time or energy to invest in the next generation.  

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