Sharing the Faith

May 27

How do we know what transpired in the early days of God’s history with His ancient people? How can we rely on the words that we read in the pages of scripture about that history? We know that Moses was the chronicler of the Lord’s workings with the ancient Hebrew people.

He shares with us in the first five books of the Bible the interaction that transpired between God and man. Some of it, from Eden, for example, was handed down through oral tradition; it had been passed from generation to generation of people who valued the unique position they had in the plan of the Almighty.

In subsequent generations, God provided prophets and scribes who kept meticulous records of the workings of God in the lives of His people. We know those scribes were so meticulous that they counted every letter and every punctuation mark to be sure of the accuracy of their writings. If they were off by a ‘tittle,’ the tiniest punctuation mark, they would destroy the page and start again. They knew there is life in the Word so it must be shared accurately.

As these ancient prophets and scribes desired that the knowledge of the Holy One of Israel be unfolded to all generations, so must we. Psalms 145:4, 5 says, “One generation will declare Your works to the next and will proclaim Your mighty acts. I will speak of…Your wonderful works.” The key word in that passage is “I.” Each of us must make it our business to share our knowledge of and faith in Jesus with the lost of our generation—and with the next generation.