God wants you and I to remember significant times in our lives. Times where we’ve captured moments and turned them into timeless memories. In the OT book of Joshua, God instructed Joshua to build a monument upon crossing the Jordan river to remind the Israelites of God’s faithfulness and what God had done for them. a physical reminder of a huge truth in their past. Here is how it went down:
“When all the people had crossed the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, ‘Now choose twelve men, one from each tribe. Tell them, ‘take twelve stones from the very place where the priests are standing in the middle of the Jordan. Carry them out and pile them up at the place where you camp tonight”… {joshua said} In the future your children will ask you, “What do these stones mean?” Then you can tell them, “They remind us that the Jordan River stopped flowing when the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant went across.” These stones will stand as a memorial among the people of Israel forever.”
When I was in High School I had a teacher who had a little boy. He and his little boy would collect rocks from significant times in their lives: camping, fishing, hiking, baseball games, questions, etc… and write the date and a key word to remember the circumstances on them. Then they would collect all of these stones in a glass jar. once a month they would dump all the rocks out and pick a couple and remember the significance of that stone in time. What a great way to capture time.
“These stones will stand as a memorial…”