WOW. God’s instructions were clear,
Teach the children
Teach the children who God is.
Teach the children what God has done.
Teach the children God’s law.
We failed.
Now we live with a generation that denies God’s very existence and seems to rebel by doing the absolute opposite of everything he commanded us to do.
Psalm 78:1-8
King James Version
78 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
We have raised a stubborn and rebellious generation and are reaping the fruits of our failure to teach God’s Word and be the example they needed to see. Called to be a watchman, we failed to sound the alarm, and the enemy has breached the wall and has taken our children captive.
”If my people, who are called by my name …
