As tall as 120 feet or as short as field grass, there are over 1000 species of bamboo.  It has been mankind’s friend for years on end.  The tender shoots are eaten and the larger species can be used as posts to support your house.  One interesting fact is the bamboo flowers only once in it’s life, when it is about to die.  The same species across the globe will flower at the same time, some at the end of 30 years, some 60 or even 120 years.  The seeds fall to the ground the old plant dies and hopefully a new plant is birthed.

 As I read about the bamboo I thought about Christians and the need to plant the next generation.  If the old generation dies out without those seeds being planted in the hearts of the newer generation, what hope does the world have?

 Judges 2:7

(7)    And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel .

But when the next generation arose, they soon departed from the right way.  Why?  They hadn’t been “Planted”.  There were no seeds of righteousness and godliness, the older generation died off without infusing into the next generation a love for God.

As we meditate on God’s word and share it with others, He said we would become like a “tree planted by the rivers of water” Psa. 1:2-3

May we pass on to our children and the next generation a reality in God.  As the song says “May those that come behind us find us faithful.”