Get Real November 23 Devotional
November 23, 2024
DEUTERONOMY 6:1-2 | 1Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy, 2 so that you and your children and your children’s children may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life and keep all his decrees and his commandments that I am commanding you, so that your days may be long.
The task of teaching is intrinsically vast and difficult, largely because life is generational. The structure of life into generations, with parents, children, and children’s children (grandchildren), is a beautiful thing. One of the great joys of the church is relating to the full age range of human beings, babies to super seniors, and seeing the goods and graces of each stage. Watching parents and children, or grandparents and grandkids, fills me with joy and thanksgiving (just as seeing aunts or uncles with young nieces or nephews).
But because life is generational and life spans are inevitably short, everything we’ve ever known, including every social practice, every scientific fact, and every religious insight, is vulnerable and easily lost. Almost everything not passed on to children will be lost or ignored, even if it is retained in “the cloud” somewhere. Teaching is an urgent, ongoing necessity upon which the church and our civilization depend.
Who was your best teacher?
Who was your best spiritual teacher?
