In reading through some of the Old Testament this last week, I noticed something I really had not paid much attention to before…....
Rock piles.
Back in those days, if God had pulled you through a difficult time, people would gather rocks and make an altar and worship God and thank Him for what He had brought them through. One of these instances is in the Book of Joshua. Joshua and his people need to cross over the Jordan River and God stopped the flow of water so that they could pass to the other side. Once they got to the other side, Joshua instructed the people to take rocks and make an altar. He then tells them that in the future, when their children ask them about the rock pile, they will have an opportunity to share with their children the amazing thing God had done for them.
Obviously, quite a bit has changed since then. We can't just start building rock piles in the middle of Wal-Mart or in the middle of a traffic intersection or anywhere else that God has done something amazing for us. But what hasn't changed, is the need to share what God has done in our lives with our children. Are you keeping track of the times when God has worked a miracle in your life or pulled you out of an addiction or helped see you through a valley? Keeping a record of times like that will help us as well. When we get to a point in our life when we feel alone or depressed or uninspired, we can pull out our list and remember just how good God is, and how good He has been to us. As our children grow up and get to a point in their life where they are in need of encouragement, or if they arrive at a place where they need affirmation that God is in fact real and alive and is at work in their lives, we can pull out or rock piles and share the stories with them.
Maybe today is the day that you construct your first rock pile.
Happy building!
