Remembering . . . the way to the future (part 2)

In my previous blog I discussed the importance of remembering all God has done for and through our body as we prepare to move to Piperton. We looked at Moses’ farewell speech to the people of Israel in the book of Deuteronomy as they gathered to make the long awaited move into the promise land. Moses’ speech centered around “remembering” so that the nation of Israel did not repeat the sins of the past. I suggest that we remember for a different reason. I suggest we remember God faithfulness in order to dream a new dream for the children of Living Hope (even the eighteen yet to be born)!
A future that includes our children sharing the gospel with their friends on the playground or ball field. A future that includes the LH babies yet to be born serving as missionaries, pastors, elders, children’s teachers or being doctors, lawyers, city government workers, firemen, FedEx pilots doing their jobs with gospel intentionality. A future where you see our current preschoolers as men and women of God discipling their children and their neighbors – expanding the kingdom right were God has placed them. A future where orphans and widows in countries currently closed to the Gospel hear of Jesus because the teachers in Hope Park shared Him with a child in their class and that child as an adult takes the Gospel to them! A future where prayers being prayed today by people who have never heard of Living Hope or even Memphis, TN are answered by the sacrifice of one of our kids. A future where LH church plants throughout our city and even the world are led by the toddlers currently comforted in our classrooms each week. Do you see that future? Can you visualize it! I can! That what’s keeps me going. That dream – that future.
The book of Deuteronomy ends with Moses’ death, but it says something that intrigued me. Deuteronomy 34:6 says “. . . Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.” At 120 years old Moses was still going strong! How is that possible? How can you deal with two million bellyaching, God-ignoring, frustrating people for 40 years and still be going strong? I mean Moses was just like me and you. At one point Moses says to God, “if I have to continue dealing with these people . . . just kill now!”
So how did Moses do it? How did Moses die a man still full of life at 120 years old? My answer . . . Moses REMEMBERED! He remembered God had a plan to bless the nations through the Israelites and Moses remembered God allowed him to be a part of it!
What about you? Are you remembering God has a plan for the nations of the world and He wants you to be a part of it? Why don’t you join His plan by teaching the kids of LHC? Teach so the yet to be born children in Afghanistan, Uganda, Nicaragua can hear the Gospel. Teach so that one day the American church is stirred to revival through the words of a child at Living Hope. Teach the gospel to the children of LHC because only through the gospel being lived out for generations can Memphis be healed. Teach, because God has a plan and He allows you to be a part of impacting the nations by teaching the children of Living Hope. Do you see it? Do you see the vision?

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