September 20, 2025 Devo

Do you get worried about the coming generations? Ever look around at everything that’s going on in the world and cringe to think that this is the world your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren are going to inherit? Wars. Disease. Drugs. A decaying moral culture. It’s easy to become discouraged and fearful. But when we do, we’re forgetting something. God. For all that it may seem that the world is turning from Him, God never turns from us. Read that last phrase in our verse again. “His faithfulness continues to each generation.” God will keep coming after our kids and grandkids just as He did us.
God was faithful to our grandparents and worked incredible miracles in their lives. God was faithful in the lives of our parents and helped them find the way of grace. And God has been wonderfully faithful to US. That means God was faithful through World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. He was faithful through the Great Depression and the Great Recession. He stayed faithful through the Cold War, the drug-saturated ’60s, and the Watergate Scandal. God didn’t budge when we stopped allowing public prayers in our schools or when we legalized abortion. You see, God’s faithfulness to us has never been contingent on our violence, corruption, or sinfulness. We strayed, but He STAYED. Israel constantly rebelled against God, even when He delivered them from Egypt. They often suffered horribly from their disobedience, just as we do sometimes. But God never left them, and God will never leave us.
Every once in a while, I’ll have someone say, “Don’t you think the world is getting worse and worse?” I really don’t think so. I think the world has been bad since The Fall. It’s just been a different kind of bad in each generation. Now, with the internet and social media, we’re a lot more aware of it. But God is GOOD. He reaches out His Hand in each generation to those who would take hold of it. So, do I worry about my grandkids and the coming generations? Sure, I do. I worry enough to try to do my best to hand off my faith to them. But what I don’t worry about is whether God will be there for them. Because God’s goodness will always be greater than our “badness.”
So don’t wring your hands and pace the floor. Instead, fold your hands and drop to your knees. Ask God to reveal Himself to the coming generations, just as He has done to ours. Ask Him to keep raising up new leaders who have a heart after Him, just as He has done in each generation before. While you’re at it, thank Him. Because without His resilient faithfulness, we would have been sunk many generations ago! That’s God’s Word for you today.