Read Judges 2:7-12.
You need to be a fighting family. I’m not advocating that we fight with each other, but fight for one another. If we do not face the fact that we live in a world that is hostile to faith, then we will lose the war for our children’s souls. This is the battle for the next generation.
It is one that Israel lost. In our text today, we note how Joshua led the people of his day to live for God. “So the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD which He had done for Israel.” (v.7). They not only knew about God, but they had experienced Him. Yet, they failed to lead the next generation into that same reality. “When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD nor the work which He had done for Israel.” (v.10)
Joshua’s generation had been fighters—they had warred against the pagan culture. The next generation practiced compromise and surrendered to the heathen environment. “Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals; and they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the LORD to anger.” (v.11-12).
This is the great challenge of our day. Make a commitment to be a fighting family. The eternal destiny of your children is at stake!
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