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Our Mission From God

Are you aware that you have been given a mission from God? No matter how much education you have, how young or old you are, or whether you are wealthy or poor - you have a God-given assignment to fulfill. Your life is valuable. God has placed His hand upon you to make a difference in your world.

In Psalm 71:9, David prayed a most peculiar prayer -

"Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth."

He concluded his prayer in verse 18 with these words -

"Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed Thy strength unto this generation, and Thy power to every one that is to come."

David was approaching old age. His prayer was that God would give him strength, good health, and the ability to serve his generation.

Acts 13:36 declares - "For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God..."

How would he do this?

He simply did good by the will of God and according to the dictates of His Holy Word and became a great blessing to his age.

He felt that it was his duty to leave to posterity the truths and observations that he accumulated, concerning the Almighty and His "strength" and "power." He declared to the generations to follow the accounts that he experienced which exemplified God's mighty outstretched arm - a symbol of strength - and His greatness, majesty, and glory. Hence, his life was not in vain. He made the world a better and wiser place by his accumulated wisdom and knowledge. Through his experiences and testimonies, he brought and continues to bring each saint to a higher level in the Lord.

O Christians, that is God's desire for our lives as well. We are on this earth with an assignment from Him to serve our generation. We have a God-given duty to shew them His "strength" and "power." We each have testimonies of His mighty intervention that posterity needs to hear. Our lives must never be accounted as being a waste or in vain. We have purpose and are a people of destiny.

Psalm 78:7 recounts the Lord's design for our lives to the next generation -

"That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments."

Through our experiences, teachings, preachings, accumulated knowledge displayed through our gifts, talents, and abilities - we are to inspire the upcoming age to place their total confidence and trust in God and maintain their allegiance to Him. We are to stir them up with a holy passion and zeal to live in absolute conformity to His will for their lives.

They must never forget His works, doings, or acts but come to realize His Great Faithfulness in fulfilling His promises to the obedient.

By contemplating and reviewing His mighty "works," they then are spurred to a walk of obedience whereby they keep His laws and commandments.

• Job 15:18 tells us - "Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

• Psalm 78:4 adds- "We will not hide them from their children..."

Since books were a rarity and there was very little reading in ancient times - truths, results of observations, or memories of past events were transmitted by tradition - from father to son - by means of parables or maxims. One generation received from the ancestors and communicated thoughts, experiences, inventions, wisdom, and skills to the next.

They did not fail in their duty. They sensed that a critical assignment was laid upon them. They were entrusted with great truths that could not be hid. They had to be faithful in carrying out their task.

O parent, what about you? Do you sense the seriousness of your assignment to communicate to your children and grandchildren the "strength" and "power" of God?

You cannot hide these valuable truths. You must not! The next generation is depending on you!

Psalm 78:4 - They must hear of His "praises," "strength," and "wonderful works" - "...shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done."

The past records of His "power" and "strength" will bring our children to realize the reasons why He is so worthy to be praised. His many and varied interventions on our behalf as families should cause our praises -the praises of us and our children - to be kept up in an uninterrupted succession.

Psalm 145:4 relates - "One generation shall praise Thy works to another, and shall declare Thy mighty acts."
Psalm 44:1 - "We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work Thou didst in their days, in the times of old."

Individually and collectively as families, we have accounts of His marvelous providential dealings. His greatness and "mighty acts" should always be kept up as just ground for our praises. What the Lord did before on behalf of the Children of Israel He will do again for He is the same, and He is no respecter of persons. He performed miracles in the past, and we can be certain that He will do the same again in our day. We can expect miracles for they definitely occur for those who will dare to believe.

As parents, we owe a debt to our children to keep a steady account of God's mighty interventions and to continually pass them along. Our children have a responsibility to diligently grasp and attend to our sayings and to keep them in remembrance for the next generation.

Isaiah 38:19 - "The living, the living, he shall praise Thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known Thy truth."

We are responsible to pass the Truth of God's Word onto our children so as to build a steady confidence in it.

We must tell them of the goodness of the Lord, and not neglect the message of His wrath and judgments.

Joel 1:3 - The Prophet Joel announced - "Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation."

To what was the Prophet referring?

Joel 1:4-6 - He was referring to the tokens of God's wrath and judgment - "palmerworm," "locust," "cankerworm," "caterpillar," "a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion."

He was prophesying of great destruction and judgment. This message was not to be hid from the upcoming generation. Joel admonished the people - "Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children..."

We, as parents, will be responsible before the Righteous Lord if we fail to tell our children the message of His awful wrath and judgment. Many have no problem in communicating a God of Love and compassion, but they hide His other side - His just judgment and righteous indignation against sin and disobedience.

Could this be the reason why the Fear of God is horribly lacking among the upcoming generation?

There is a "hidden truth" that needs to be revealed so that our children will stand in awe of God and tremble before Him at the slightest turn in the wrong direction.

Oh! That we, as parents, would recognize the seriousness of our duty. We can sway the next generation by our own obedience or disobedience. Hence, we cannot fail in this area. We cannot transmit the message of His mercies and hide the memories of His woes.

If we do, we will pay for it - before God and men. We will reap a horrible harvest of hypocrisy, loose-living, lawlessness, compromise, worldliness, rebellion, stubbornness, irresponsibility, unfaithfulness, pride, arrogance, lust and perversion as already seems to be the case in our present age.

Don't ever let the devil tell you that your life has no purpose or meaning.
Don't let any man ever convince you that your life is a waste.

The next generation is depending on your experiences with God.
What God does in and through you can influence posterity.

Don't keep quiet.
Don't let anyone tell you that you can't when God and the next generation are crying out - You must!

Obey God!
Don't hide the truths that He reveals to you nor the experiences that you have encountered.
Someone needs to hear your testimony this very day.

Psalm 107:2 - "Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy."

May God Bless His Word.
Connie

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