{"id":4438,"date":"2022-12-17T13:55:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2022-12-17T13:55:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:55:54","slug":"devotional-on-judges-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-judges-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--ItLZSqJvgA\/XZz-Wj2OZlI\/AAAAAAABB3o\/pHXE0KqLbjAYvlmWin-xviASR5aOFd_FACKgBGAsYHg\/s1600\/100_3199.JPG\" width=\"1600\" height=\"901\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2014 &#8211; Yosemite National Park<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nGeneration to generation<br \/>\nJudges 2: Eventually that entire generation died\u2026another generation grew up that didn&#8217;t know anything of God\u2026.<br \/>\nThis is a pitiful situation.  How foolish!  Here are parents who ate manna, had ever-wear shoes, crossed through the Jordan on dry ground, saw the walls of Jericho fall, and won an amazing dominance in Canaan.  Somehow, those same parents failed to instill the knowledge of God in their children.  What\u2019s wrong with these people?  Years earlier Moses warned them that it would be easy to enjoy their success and forget God.  Now, a generation has passed and the nightmare scenario he described has come true.  Apparently, it\u2019s easier to fail to pass faith from one generation to the next than we might think.  My experience with God might be vivid to me but can mean almost nothing to my children.  I must assume nothing and take nothing for granted.  If those I love are to know God I must be resolutely intentional in instilling that knowledge in their lives.  God help us to reach our children.<br \/>\nTake Away: How can I best pass my faith on to those who are dearest to me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generation to generation Judges 2: Eventually that entire generation died\u2026another generation grew up that didn&#8217;t know anything of God\u2026. This is a pitiful situation. How foolish! Here are parents who ate manna, had ever-wear shoes, crossed through the Jordan on dry ground, saw the walls of Jericho fall, and won an amazing dominance in Canaan. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1511,7],"tags":[137,172,340,1069],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14128,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions\/14128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}