Vinyl records and rocks

I read this statement on a calendar this morning:

Okay, how many of you have never even seen a vinyl record? It's like a CD, but larger,black, and has grooves in it.

I grew up around records. My mom and dad both loved music. So as I read this quote I suddenly felt very, very old. This calendar was promoting a site about records. Some people are trying to keep a link to the past, and that is not bad. We must learn and profit from our past. Remember the quote about having to relive the past if we don't learn from it.

God also emphasizes learning from the past.

In Joshua 4 the children of Israel are crossing the Jordan river. As they are crossing God makes an unusual command. He tells them to bring 12 stones out of the river bed bottom and to place them on the opposite shore. What was the point?

God wanted them to never forget want He had done for them at this point in their history and he wanted them to pass it on to their children. Our faith is not something new or novel. The way we minister may change but the message never does, thus we must keep the link with the past vital.
We must pass on to this generation all that God has done to this point.

The Bible often stresses our human tendency to forget, but it is crucial that we remember to build faith for today.

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And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan.
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He said to the Israelites, "In the future when your descendants ask their fathers, 'What do these stones mean?'
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tell them, 'Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.'
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For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan just what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.
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He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God."

Joshua 4:20-24 (NIV)