A generation who did not know the Lord 

(Judges 2.6-10)

“Another generation grew up…” It is generally thought that this is referring to the grandchildren and great grandchildren of the Joshua generation and the “elders-who-outlived-him” generation.

That is not uncommon. It has been a pattern down through history - even today. Probably most of us know grandchildren and/or great grandchildren of Godly people who are anything but…

My intent isn’t to find someone to blame. There’s enough blame assessment to go around in our world and it really doesn’t solve or change anything. I’m just really concerned about the last part of that 10^th verse: “another generation grew up, who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel .”

Is it possible that we have become so busy in our taking “possession of the land, each to his own inheritance…” that we have failed to pass on the real heritage?

Are we are so methodically “serv(ing) the LORD” that our values fail to get translated two or three generations down?

The bottom line is this: kids can’t see how you feel when you are ‘experiencing God,’ but they can see how you respond to the world around you.

They cannot hear the communication of your soul, but they can hear your voice of anger, fear, doubt, malice, envy, strife, contention and ambition.

Do they hear God? Do they see God? Do they know God?

The experience of life comes at a youngster hard and all too quickly.

A child needs the preparation:

·  Of admiring a life that has tasted of the Lord and shown that it is good.

·  Of watching one who knows what it is like to have had plenty and to have been in want and has found the peace of contentment regardless of resources.

·  Of knowing that the ones who love him most have a solid confidence that God is in control and has a plan.

·  Of believing that God loves him and all will be well.

·  Of finding that not only is God the same yesterday, today and forever – but so are those adults who claim to know God.

What happens to a child who doesn’t have these experiences?

They know neither the Lord, or what He can do for them.