In ANH, Princess Leia had no firsthand knowledge of what General Kenobi had done.
She was acting on faith or at least a firm belief.
She relied on her father’s stories and recollections of what General Kenobi had done. “General Kenobi. Years ago, you served my father in the Clone Wars.”
In Deuteronomy 6:7, we are told, “You [parents] shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
What was it that parents were to teach their children? Deuteronomy 6:4-5 tells us, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.”
It is the parents’ responsibility to train up their children in the Lord. It is not the church, the pastor, the youth leader, the schools, or anyone else.
Princess Leia risked her life and the fate of the Rebellion based on what her father asked her to do and what he had told her about General Kenobi.
We need to instill that kind of faith in our children. If we are not a parent, we may be an aunt or uncle (by blood or close proximity). We can still help the parents of children in our lives train up their children.
When we teach the next generation about God, we need to share what He has done in our lives and the lives of those documented in Scripture.
Remember, God has no grandchildren, only children.
The next generation needs us to share our faith with them.
