FAITH CONNECTION FOR TODAY 

What we believe about God matters. How we live out that faith matters. I have been sharing our our need to grow in our walk in faith. One of the most important reason to increase our trust in God is so that we can be a examples to our children, families, co - workers etc...

How we live out our faith matters to our children!

How do we raise them in this hectic world?

That's what I want to share on for a bit, some our children may have gone and now are raising their own children our grandchildren so let's us be that example in whatever stage of life we are in.

Parent, grandparent, teacher, aunt or uncle, cousin, or friend—there is likely someone who is looking up to us. What we believe about God matters. 

How we live out that faith matters. From the 

earliest ages, children learn by watching those 

around them. It helps them grow developmentally 

and socially as they learn to navigate the world 

around them and they adopt habits through 

positive and negative reinforcement.

Our sins, too, have the potential to impact our 

children and the generations that follow. So, 

when Moses speaks on God’s behalf, saying, “I 

the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the 

iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third 

and fourth generation of those who hate me” 

(Deuteronomy 5:9), we understand that God is not 

delivering judgment but rather describing the real 

effects of family dynamics over time.

There are very few of us who have matured to 

adulthood without feeling the effects of our 

parents’ failures. It is inevitable that we too 

will make mistakes. Forgiveness and modeling 

forgiveness play important roles in living free from 

the sins and pain of our past, whether our own sins 

or those inflicted upon us.

It is imperative that as adult Christians we take 

responsibility for our actions and find freedom 

from cycles of addiction, abuse, or other sins that 

have entangled them and likely their extended 

family for generations. 

Engaging in repentance, seeking therapy and medical help, and asking for accountability from fellow believers are concrete steps to keep these same struggles from impacting the next generation in the same way.

The good news is that, for those that follow his 

commandments, God shows steadfast love (v. 10). 

Through Christ, there can be freedom from 

the sins that have been carried down through generations. !(Read Deuteronomy 5: 6 - 10)

So how we live our faith out matters, so make that FAITH CONNECTION FOR our children, families!

Father, help us to be that example for our children, grandchildren, all our families of what it mean to have faith in you may they see even in our imperfections a perfect God as we do our best to live out of faith in you. In the mighty name of your Son Jesus Christ Amen!