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. ... That the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God.
The Word of God. The stories of what He has done in the past. The stories of what He has done in OUR lives. Those must be shared with our children. For the blessing of those that are here and those that are yet unborn.
How much more I learned of God when I was looking in the face of my Grandfather telling me about what God had done for him. About his personal struggles as a young man. About the difficulties that God has helped him overcome.
God is personal. He works with us one-on-one. So share that with your kids. And model that with your kids.
Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
The easy way to know if your kids are listening to you is if they did what you asked of them. Tell them to pick up their socks and they say sure? And then later the socks are still all over the living room. Surprise! They didn't listen to you.
Want to know if you are listening to God? Look at your life and see if you picked up the 'socks' He asked you to pick up.
... and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree ...
I really need to try grafting branches. I know of it being done. For example the last known surviving apple tree planted by Johnny Appleseed was preserved in this way. They take fresh cuttings from the old tree and graft it onto the root stock of a modern apple tree. And from that grows the same old Appleseed tree upon the roots of a different apple tree.
In the same way we are graphed onto the root of the LORD. We are not dead branches, but from our salvation we become freshly budded branches. And Christ cuts us out of our old life, our old root. And grafts us now into the root of God. To draw from Him and produce the fruit He has planned for us.
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