My eyes glanced from the computer and the first line of a poem on the front of a scrapbook grabbed my attention.
“These hands we hold we touch them now for all eternity.”
The picture above the poem was that of a teacher holding the hand of her student as they walked up a hill on the last day of school.
The Lord began to speak to me about the responsibility we have as parents and grandparents to touch the children entrusted to us by Him.
Handholding is symbolic of friendship. God spoke to me that this was a key principle he wants us to share with our children and grandchildren. HE, the great I AM, the God of creation wants to have “relationship” with us and we can be a “friend” of God.
“Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth; but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.” (John 15:15)
It is also symbolic of “intimacy”. He is asking us to model an intimate relationship with God for our children and grandchildren.
The Lord highlighted the scriptures in John 15 as the scriptures we are to share with our children and grandchildren. It has been prophesied that the generation that will be teens in the year 2012 will lead the first stage of the great endtime harvest. These will need to know how to be fruitful, to abide in the vine and produce that harvest that is coming.
“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.” (John 15:5)
Two hands clasped together represent “unity” and “agreement”. We can be one with God as Christ is one with the Father. The anointing is associated with unity in the Psalms. We must be the example of unity for those who come behind us.
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments.” (Psalm 133:1-2)
Across the top of John 15 of the Bible, I have written “Address of the Promised Land”. God has spoken this directive to us as parents and grandparents that none of those we have within our sphere of influence would miss the Promised Land of an intimate relationship with God.
This word from the Lord is spoken to the adults of this generation. First, we must experience this kind of loving and intimate union with Him. Then, and only then, can we pass on that which we have experienced for ourselves.
We know, for these who are following, there will be steep hills to climb, rocky places, times of wanting to turn back as the Israelites experienced in the desert. Like the teacher, we can walk with them for a time up the hill toward their future. The day will come, however, when the anointing we have imparted will give way to their personal walk of faith.
Picture the teacher, holding the hand of the student, walking up the hill the last day of class. When she gets to the top of the hill, the end of the last class, her job is done. She lets go the hand of the one who has spent hours and hours in her presence. What will be the impact of those minutes, hours, days and weeks? Will this student be ready to walk into his own destiny, plan and purpose?
“That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments.” (Psalm 78: 6-7)
“We hold their hands for a time now, but we touch eternity.”
