2 Timothy 1:5
Generational impact is SO very important! How we choose to live out our faith WILL make an impact whether good or bad. The hope is that we choose to live out our faith in a Christ-like manner so that we can be that example to our children, our children’s children, and to others outside of our little church at home. I am the woman I am today because I watched both of my parents live out their faith and I was taught by both how to seek God. They gave me the base to have the opportunity to encounter Jesus. In 2 Timothy 1:5 Paul is telling Timothy that he sees his true faith and that same faith was in Timothy’s grandmother and his mother.
Timothy’s grandmother Lois made an impact on her daughter, Eunice, and in turn they both made an impact on Timothy. Both women were following what the Lord had instructed parents to do way back in Old Testament Bible times. In Deut. 6:6-9 God instructed the Israelites to teach His word diligently to their children (and we are to ours) no matter what they were doing. They were instructed to teach them while they were hanging out at home, walking to wherever, when they were laying down and when they woke up. Not only were they to teach but they were to write it on their doorposts and on their gates. You know this was important because it was repeated in Deut. 11:18-20 and in vs 21 it says, “so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers…” When our children are young that is when they are the most impressionable which is why we need to start teaching them when they are young about what Jesus did for them and how we are to live. I have been using scripture with my kids since they were little to teach them about Jesus, about how we are to live and why we do what we do. I may not see the results of my labor until they are a bit older but that is okay because I know I did what was asked of me. We can see Timothy’s grandmother and mother followed this because of Timothy’s faith.
Our impact does not just stop with our own family; we are to be teaching/encouraging the younger generation at our church wherever we are. Titus 2 talks about this, it tells older men and women to set a godly example to the younger men and women so that they will know how to live. I know that I am who I am because I have had so many women throughout my life who have obeyed this passage. It is our job to make as big of an impact on our children and others so that they will find Christ and start their journey of being impactful. Let’s go out there and
Timothy’s grandmother Lois made an impact on her daughter, Eunice, and in turn they both made an impact on Timothy. Both women were following what the Lord had instructed parents to do way back in Old Testament Bible times. In Deut. 6:6-9 God instructed the Israelites to teach His word diligently to their children (and we are to ours) no matter what they were doing. They were instructed to teach them while they were hanging out at home, walking to wherever, when they were laying down and when they woke up. Not only were they to teach but they were to write it on their doorposts and on their gates. You know this was important because it was repeated in Deut. 11:18-20 and in vs 21 it says, “so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers…” When our children are young that is when they are the most impressionable which is why we need to start teaching them when they are young about what Jesus did for them and how we are to live. I have been using scripture with my kids since they were little to teach them about Jesus, about how we are to live and why we do what we do. I may not see the results of my labor until they are a bit older but that is okay because I know I did what was asked of me. We can see Timothy’s grandmother and mother followed this because of Timothy’s faith.
Our impact does not just stop with our own family; we are to be teaching/encouraging the younger generation at our church wherever we are. Titus 2 talks about this, it tells older men and women to set a godly example to the younger men and women so that they will know how to live. I know that I am who I am because I have had so many women throughout my life who have obeyed this passage. It is our job to make as big of an impact on our children and others so that they will find Christ and start their journey of being impactful. Let’s go out there and
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