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Psalm chapter 44 verse 1.

Oh God, we have heard with our ears.

Our fathers have told us what deeds you performed in their days.

What a picture.

The rest of this Psalm, I wish I could read the whole thing, just goes on to recount how these fathers and mothers in the faith have passed down to the next generation

who God is and what God has done and how God has worked in the past and specifically in

their lives in glorious majestic saving delivering powerful ways in their lives and among God's people.

And these fathers and mothers in the faith know God has worked in these ways, and they're faithfully passing

the good news of God's work down to the next generation.

So as I read this, I just think about the responsibility all of us

have to pass on to the next generation the deeds God has performed in our days and in previous days. This is why it's so

important for us to pass on in the next generation the stories of how God has provided for his people and

delivered his people all throughout scripture that we would faithfully pass those

stories down but not just stories from scripture, stories from our own lives

of ways that God has shown his grace and his mercy and his power on our behalf.

Are you faithfully telling the next generation

all God has done for you?

And there's obvious application here for parents who have children in our homes to make sure that we are intentional to pass the good news of what God has done in the past and in our lives

specifically to tell our kids who God is and what God has done specifically at specific times in our lives

that our children would hear those stories continually from us

but not just parents this is a responsibility for all the people of God to pass on the good news of who

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