Living the Lesson: Gathering Stones (Part I)

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Adrea Scheidler PhotographyAs a follow-up to our Parenting – An Investment That Grows posts, Marv includes a Living the Lesson scripture search to help moms and dads dig deeper into the Word of God.  These questions are meant to help you think through the areas where God may be transforming in your life.

Related Post:  Gathering Stones and Making Memories

Investment:  MAKING MEMORIES . . . Dividend:  TRADITIONS FOR GENERATIONS

Joshua 4:1-7 – When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, “Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan from right where the priests stood and to carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight . . . to serve as a sign among you.  In the future when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord . . . These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.

  • Whose idea was it to make a stone pile on the Promised Land side of the Jordan River?

  • What is significant of “stones from the middle?”

Joshua 4:21-24 – . . . In the future when your descendants ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones mean?’  tell them, Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.  For the Lord before your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over.  The Lord your God did to the Jordan just what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.  He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.

Note:  This story is about God’s power to move his people from the desert to the Promised Land.  

  • What did God want us  to remember about himself?
  • Since God is so powerful,  how should we respond to God?
  • Growing up, what stories did your parents/grandparents tell you about God’s work in their lives?  What “stones” were around to prompt telling those stories?
  • What stories about God at work  in your life now will you relate?
  • What stories can you tell from generations past?
  • What stories (pictures, scrapbooks, trophies, new articles etc. ) are visible to prompt the stories?
  • In your story- telling how do you recount details and reflect the hand of God – in your life?  in your spouse’s life?

 

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