Pass it On from Generation to Generation

"We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, the times of old.” (Psalm 144:1)

Israel of old was instructed to teach the young people what God had done, how they were slaves in Egypt and how God had brought them out. They were to teach the young people and children the things of God when they were at home, when they were in bed, when they arose in the morning, when they were at the table eating and when they were walking on a journey. (Deuteronomy 6:6-9, 20)

The psalmist acknowledged that he had been taught by the old folks what God did in the past. It was to be passed on from generation to generation.

Today, we have given our children cell phones, iPads and electronic games but are failing to pass on the mighty things of God. We adults are not telling them the old, old story.

We must get back to the profound basics of what they need to know of who God is and what it means to be a Christian. If we fail to do that I fear that a generation from now Christianity will be a faded memory of the past and our Bibles relics in a museum.