Word FIlled Wednesdays! October 19th, 2011

Come and Join Kim of Marmee's Pantry and I (formerly A Country Mom) if you are not already participating! We are digging into the Word and sharing what we are learning each Wednesday! All you have to do is share the passage you have read that morning, share your heart on what He is teaching you, follow others who are doing the same and comment on their blog:) Let's learn from the Lord and each other!

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My reading today is from Psalm 78 verses 1-8

Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;

incline your ears to the words of my mouth!

² I will open my mouth in a parable;

I will utter dark sayings from of old,

³ things that we have heard and known,

that our fathers have told us.

⁴ We will not hide them from their children,

but tell to the coming generation

the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,

and the wonders that he has done.

⁵ He established a testimony in Jacob

and appointed a law in Israel,

which he commanded our fathers

to teach to their children,

⁶ that the next generation might know them,

the children yet unborn,

and arise and tell them to their children,

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so that they should set their hope in God

and not forget the works of God,

but keep his commandments;

⁸ and that they should not be like their fathers,

a stubborn and rebellious generation,

a generation whose heart was not steadfast,

whose spirit was not faithful to God.

How easily we can get boggled down in our day to day life and when we are focusing on chores, what's for dinner tonight, getting all the laundry done and so forth. How easily we can forget or push to the back burner what is eternal and has life lasting significance!

Be sure as we sit around our dinner tables, and yes, eating together and connecting around the family dinner table could seem antiquated but it is vitally important! Ok, rant for another day        But as we connect, share what God has done in your family! Share your heritage! Have stone altars of rememberance. In our home, we talk of my parents and how they struggled through the depression, World War 2 and then raising myself and my siblings during turbulent times. All with grace, sometimes tears and a lot of faith and holding onto God. How they came through it with laughter, with bumps on the knees and scratchs on their elbows. And often!

Our children need to know where they come from and The God they are to serve! Speak it and Teach it. You'll see your faith grow as well!!

We live in a rush rush world. Everything moves so fast on tv and we have become accustomed to think that our life should be like a sitcom. 20 minutes of life, troubles and 10 minutes of commerical and at the end, all is fixed. And now a days, the fathers are made out to be ignorant, mom's are selfish and lazy and the kids are the wise ones.. really? Where do they get their wisdom from?  If not from their parents with a worn and opened bible, then they are getting it from Disney? Really? Since when did God give us a waver to let the world guide our children?

Dear Ones, you must teach your children the Word of God. Speak it to them, Write it on the Walls of their hearts and on your doorposts. Everywhere they turn, speak grace over them! You will not regret it!

be blessed,

mrs a