1-13-15. Exodus 13:8-16. Tell The Kids What It All Means-my devotional
1-13-15. Exodus 13:8-16. Tell The Kids What It All Means-my devotional
Exodus 13:8-16. Kevin E. Jesmer 1-13-15
Exodus 13:14. “In the days to come, when your son asks you, “What does this mean?’ say to him, ‘With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.”
God wanted all future generations to remember his grace poured out. Look at verse 8-10 amd 14, “On that day tell your son, ‘I do this because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ 9 This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that this law of the Lord is to be on your lips. For the Lord brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand. 10 You must keep this ordinance at the appointed time year after year.” (NIV) Read also 13:14. “In the days to come, when your son asks you, “What does this mean?’ say to him, ‘With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.”
What a better way to commemorate something than to make a compulsory public holiday of it and instructing the youth? That is what God wanted the Israelites to do. They could remember God’s grace for thousands of years by teaching their children that God is the almighty God who redeemed them from slavery, loves them and wants to work through them for great and glorious purpose.
God’s people of every generation must plant a sense of the history of the grace of God in their children. We do this with our holidays like Christmas and Easter and Thanksgiving Day. We also teach our kids in Sunday School and also through teachable moments at home. Parents could share their life testimonies to their kids. They could also tell about how God has blessed their family over the years. There are so many creative ways to pass the Gospel onto our kids.
I pray for wisdom to pass the Gospel onto my kids. I am little disconnected and disengaged lately for a myriad of reasons. But it is my responsible that the Gospel may be planted this young hearts, that they may know Jesus, be blessed, bear the fruit of righteousness and gain eternal life. But also so that they may pass on Gospel faith the next generation too.
I am really inspired by the fact that there are young people actually asked their parents, ““What does this mean?” They were asking, what does the grace of God and the deliverance of God mean? Wow! That would blow my mind. I have never heard a child ask that question. I realize that the Jews have instituted this question into their religious practice, so that when the oldest son asks it at the Passover meal, he be just automatically asking it with thought. But how nice it would be for our kids to have the heart of the boy Jesus in the Temple or little Samuel. Mostly kids remain quiet, struggling with world. I would totally faint if a child asked me that question. I pray for the young people of our nation to ask deep and inquisitive questions, searching for the deep meaning of God’s grace of deliverance.
Prayer: Lord, thank you for your redeeming grace. May this be forever on my heart and lips. Help me to tell the next generation and the next and the next about your amazing love.
One Word: Always remember the grace of God.
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