“So the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank.” EXODUS 2:2-3
PONDER THIS
Moses’ mother did not live by fatalism; it was faith. We have a lot of parents today living lives of fatalism. They say, “What will be, will be.” They throw up their hands and say, “I’m going to let him choose for himself.” You can’t do that. If you have a garden and you leave it alone, it’s going to turn to weeds. Some people have the philosophy that a little child is like a rosebud, and you just need to let the rosebud unfold. But children need wisdom that guides them through life—that is why God gave them parents to take care of them.
Amram and Jochebed could have taken little Moses and thrown him in the river for the crocodiles, and said, “Well, if God wants to deliver him, God will deliver him.” But they didn’t do that. They made the basket and set it out in faith. Real faith is not fatalism or fanaticism. Real faith acts: it does something. Real faith is belief with legs on it. James tells us in James 2:20 that faith without works is dead. We can live out our faith even in the way we guide the next generation.
Were you raised in a family of faith? How did that impact you either way?
What are some ways you can live out your faith as you pour into the next generation?
PRACTICE THIS
Share your faith with someone in the next generation and tell him or her why faith is important to you.
LWF Dr. Adrian Rogers
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