The word Mentor is defined as “ a wise and trusted Counsellor or teacher”. God initiated mentoring to ensure that the baton of faith in the Lord Jesus is been transferred from one generation to the other,
Deut. 6:1-9,
“Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: That thou mightiest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command
thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates”.
Parents should mentor their children to fear and honor God and walk in line with His word. These children that are taught should also teach their own children God’s word and positively influence their lives enough to transfer same to the next generation after them until Jesus comes. May the baton not
stop with you without passing it on .