Through The Bible in a Year - January 29, 2026

“I will be God to you and to your offspring after you.”– Genesis 17:7

“I have no memory of becoming a Christian. I don’t remember when I did not love Jesus. My Christian testimony is downright boring.”

Should I apologize for the lack of drama? No opium dens, no motorcycle gangs, no lightning on the road to Damascus?

While we celebrate those rescued from wayward paths at every stage of life, we must ask: What is the ordinary Christian life? What is the normal path by which most people come to faith?

The answer: By maturing in a Christian family that loves the Lord. Through prayers at the kitchen table, memorizing verses at dinner, regular rhythms of church life. Children grow up understanding, “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”

This is what God promised Abraham: “I will be God to you and to your offspring after you.” Not a guarantee that children will believe, but a guarantee that God will be there—showing love, showing faithfulness, even to the unfaithful.

When we baptize children, we pray, “May this child never know a day they don’t love Jesus.” That’s not sentiment—it’s trusting God’s covenant promise. Deeper than memory, beyond logical debates, faith is planted in the soil of God’s promise to love our children, as we love them and show them Christ’s love.

Just as children learn red is red without questioning, they learn Jesus loves me in homes where faith is lived and loved. These truths of faith, repeated and lived out in covenant families, shape souls before children can even articulate what they believe – and for eternity.

Respond: If you have a “boring” testimony, thank God for it today. If you’re raising children, consider how you are teaching them before memory, and beyond understanding. We are planting seeds of faith in the soil of God’s covenant promise and we daily love and live for him.

Prayer: Faithful Father, thank You for covenant families where faith is passed from generation to generation. Help me never to apologize for a steady faith planted in good soil. Whether I’m parenting, grandparenting, teaching, or mentoring, use me to point children to Jesus by loving him in such a way that they never remember not loving Him. In Jesus’ name, amen.