“Another generation grew up who knew neither the Lord nor what He had
done for Israel.” –Judges 2:10
The
last two weeks as I’ve been studying through Judges, this particular verse
keeps being brought to the forefront of my mind. The book of Judges goes through
the repeating cycle of the Israelites running to other Gods that aren’t the one
true God, becoming enslaved to another country, and then crying to God to
deliver them from their oppression. But even though He knows that they will run
to something else again, God raises up a leader to lead them out of their
oppression and back to Him. What an act of mercy and grace!
But
as soon as the leader that God has raised up is out of the picture, the
Israelites once again find themselves in a situation similar to the verse at
the beginning of this post. How quickly do God’s people forget what He has done
for them! Think of all the years of misery and sin the Israelites could have
avoided if they had stayed faithful to God and remembered often what He had
done to rescue them!
As
I begin my third year as a staff member at Tarleton Baptist Student Ministry, I
have been honored to be a part of the work that God is doing on this campus. As
I transition to Associate Director at this campus, I have to remind myself that
every individual in ministry has a responsibility to tell the story of what God
is doing in their midst to avoid a scenario like the one found in Judges where
a whole generation has gone without knowing God or what He has done for them. I
find myself at Tarleton, being one of the many storytellers who is privileged
to testify to God’s power both to students who have never heard it, and to
others who are laboring alongside us.
The point of this
blog is to keep our ministry partners who are not physically close to us in the
loop of what God is doing and also to provide information on what Sarah and I
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Thank you so much
for your prayer and involvement in the ministry that is taking place among us!
-Warren Ethridge
“One generation commends your works to another; they tell of your
mighty acts.” Psalm 145:4
