Joshua 4:20-24

20 And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan. 21 He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’ 22 tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ 23 For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. 24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.”
Today’s title is These Stones for Your Children

Man is very forgetful. People forget what happened to them so easily and so quickly. Some say that it is good to be forgetful. They say that If we remember all that happened in the past we will always be confined by the past. That is true in a sense. We need to forget things that stop us from going forward for a brighter future. But there are things that we need to remember not only for us but also for future generations. One of the main purposes that God has given us the Bible is just that. Bible helps us to remember what God has done in the past. It also is the best way to pass down what God has done to the generations after generations. People come and go. But God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What God has done to us, God will do to the next generations. God has dried up the Red sea for the generation of Moses. He dried up the Jordan River for the generation of Joshua. What God has done to the generation of Joshua, He will do to the next generation. God is the same throughout all the generations. But people of different generations view God differently. The memory of God’s great love and power which was once so vivid becomes faint in the next generations. The future generation that came after Joshua soon completely forgot about the war that Joshua and their forefathers had fought against the Canaanites. With the memory about the war dissipated, they forgot the Lord their God and served the Canaanite idols. So it is the onus of the generation who saw what God has done to leave a memory or memento of God’s great works for the next generations. The twelve stones that Joshua set up at Gilgal were exactly for it. The stones were meant to show to the next generation the love and power of God. What is your experience of crossing Jordan on a dried land? What miracles has God done for you in your life? How will you pass down what God has done to your next generations? Are you setting up your stones for your next generations?