Judges 2:10  After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel.

Today’s verse describes something that I simply cannot fathom.  How do a people forget they have been slaves?  How do they forget Moses and Joshua and what they did?  How do they forget the stories of being delivered by God in the most miraculous way – with all the plagues upon Egypt?

How do they stop telling the stories of walking through the parted Red Sea, and then seeing the Egyptian army swallowed up?  How do a people stop telling the stories of the miracles in the wilderness and seeing the manifestations of their God?  How does their God become irrelevant in the Promised Land?

These people served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the Lord had done for Israel.  But then they allowed a generation to grow up who knew nothing of the Lord nor what He had done for Israel.  (Judges 2:7, 10)  This was exactly what the Lord warned them might happen – they forgot the Lord who brought them out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.  (Deuteronomy 6:12)  They forgot everything He did – and they forgot Him.

Let us take care that something similar doesn’t happen to us. May the reality of His love in our lives and our lives lived for Him be rich and deep.  Not something artificial or more talk than substance.  It mustn’t be a facade – something superficial with nothing of reality behind it.  If we ‘claim it’ without ‘living it’, we have gone astray.

We must remember Jesus – the blessings that have occurred and recognize the blessings that we have.  Most of all, we must be aware of the Lord and His kindness to us in everything, no matter what the circumstances look like.  We are the richest people in the world if we have Jesus.  May the awe and wonder of that fact be the ever growing reality of our lives!