Why Make An Omer?

If the house is on fire, and there is no time to save anything, my husband knows we grab my box of Omers and the kids, and that's it.  I have a plastic tub filled with volume after volume of these journals that tell the story of my life over the past 15 years : the ending of my first engagement to a cheating scoundrel, my mother's battle with cancer, my first time studying the book of Daniel, meeting Joel, the love of my life, and every detail of our courtship, my four pregnancies and two harrowing deliveries.  I could go on listing the hundreds of monumental moments my volumes of journals hold.  I need them.  My mind is fuzzy on the details of things in the past.

But more important than the details of the events of my past, is the beauty with which the Lord brought me through each one with swift discipline and love. Page after page, I wrote about the strength He gave me.  I wrote about my faith growing larger, and my need for anyone or anything other than Him, dissipating.  In 1 Samuel 7:12 it says, 'Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, "Thus far has the LORD helped us."'  The Israelites would set up stones as a remembrance of the Lord's help and victories.  My journals are my stones.  I will give them to my children to show them what the Lord has done.  They will give them to their children, and so on.

In the book of Joel 1:3 it says of the Lord's help:

 Tell it to your children,
and let your children tell it to their children,
and their children to the next generation.

In Deuteronomy 11:1-7 it says:

¹ Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always. ² Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the LORD your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm; ³ the signs he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt, both to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his whole country; ⁴ what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots, how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea^[a] as they were pursuing you, and how the LORD brought lasting ruin on them. ⁵ It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the wilderness until you arrived at this place, ⁶ and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them. ⁷ But it was your own eyes that saw all these great things the LORD has done.

Never stop telling your children the great things the Lord has done in your life.  It will continually build their faith.  I encourage you to start a collection of your very own Omers for the generations to come, so they can see the "bread" the Lord gave you to eat in the wilderness when He brought you out of your "Egypt".