Our generation has the awesome task to look after the next generation.
THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION SAYS :
In a Department of Conservation publication I am reading this question in Maori, “Hutia te rito o te harakeke. Kei hea to Komako e ko?” And here is the question in English, “If you pluck out the centre of the flaxbush, where will the bellbird sing?”
We have special places in our country. We have special plants. We have special animals in New Zealand.
We must look after them. We must preserve them. It is up to us to look after them for the next generation, for our families, our children and their children.
This is what Dr Bill Ballantine says,”We need beauty, variety, naturalness and quietness merely to stay human. We have a duty to preserve good examples, for the future, of what still exists. No amount of money or regret can replace extinct species, habitats or ecosystems.”
THE BIBEL SAYS:
We have the commands of the LORD. We have the decrees of the LORD. We have the laws of the LORD. You find the ten commandments in Exodos, the second book of the Bible in chapter twenty. Please read Exodus 20:1-17!
We are not only told to observe them, but to teach them to the next generation. The Bible says in Deuteronomy 4:9, “Teach them to your children and to their children after them.” Deuteronomy 11:19 says, “Teach them to your children, …” Deuteronomy 6:7 says that we are to impress the command, namely to love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our strength, on our children.
How do we do that?
By talking about the commands. By tying the commands as symbols on our hands. By binding them on our foreheads. By writing them on the doorframes of our houses and on our gates.
Let us also remember that obedience is commanded!
The most important thing is to teach the next generation about God, because people who believe in God are more likely to look after the things God has given them!
