Telling Our Children

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 184, Telling Our Children.

"We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done." Psalm 78:4.

Notice that first line: we will not hide them. That is a decision, my friend. It is not a happy accident, not something that just happens on its own. The memory of what God has done isn't lost because the miracles stopped happening — it's lost because people stop telling them. Silence is always a choice, even when we don't realize we're making it.

And look who this story is being told to: the coming generation. The psalmist isn't only thinking of those who already believe today, already convinced, already living out the faith. He's thinking of those not yet born. Of those who will grow up knowing nothing of this unless someone tells them. The faithfulness of a generation isn't measured only by what it believes — but by what it manages to pass on.

And what exactly should be told? The psalm is specific: the glorious deeds of the LORD, his might, the wonders he has done. Not theories about God. Not abstract concepts about some distant supreme being. Deeds. Concrete things that happened, that someone saw, that someone lived through. A child's faith doesn't grow from hearing theological definitions — it grows from hearing real stories of a God who actually acted.

Think about your own life for a moment. You have stories like this, don't you? Moments when God moved in ways you can't explain any other way. Provision that arrived at exactly the right time. Healing. A door that opened when everything seemed shut. A peace that came in the middle of chaos. Those are the wonders this psalm asks us not to hide.

And there is something urgent in this. Every generation received this story from someone — parents, grandparents, a teacher, a pastor — and carries the responsibility to pass it on. It's a chain. And when one link in that chain chooses silence, an entire generation can grow up never hearing what God has already done. Not because God stopped acting — but because nobody told them.

So today, my friend, I want to give you a simple, concrete task. Choose one person — your child, your grandchild, a nephew or niece, a child at your church, a young person you know. And tell that person, today, out loud, one concrete thing God has already done in your life. It doesn't need to be a spectacular miracle. It can be small. But tell it. Name it. Let that story leave your mouth and enter the heart of someone who will carry it forward.

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.