Faithful Steward Ministries and FSM Women's Outreach

No las encubriremos a sus hijos,
Contando a la generación venidera las alabanzas de Jehová, Y su potencia, y las maravillas que hizo. (RVR 1960)

     I am a parent ( in fact a great-grandparent) and I am going to assume that most of you are or someday hope to be one also. So my question is what would you withhold from your child’s well-being? Clothing, Food, Shelter, or maybe Water; ridiculous you say I completely agree. Yet everyday all across the world parents, grand-parents, aunts, uncles and others charged with the care and upbringing of the next generation of adults forgo one of their greatest essentials for life, their spiritual well-being. 

   I am not going to get lengthy today because I believe the Psalm speaks for itself.

Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
    incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
² I will open my mouth in a parable;
    I will utter dark sayings from of old,
³ things that we have heard and known,
    that our fathers have told us.
⁴ 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.

     It tells us, no demands of us v.2-3 to open my mouth in a parable; so that I will utter dark sayings from of old, ³ things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We are to pass on all the knowledge all the laws [civil (how we live daily) and moral (how we live Spiritually)] all our accumulated wisdom God has given us.

     In our text today v.4 we are told to reveal the wonders glorious deeds of the Lord, to this coming generation. I love how C.H. Spurgeon put it “Grammar is poor food for the soul if it be not flavored with grace.”  The world will always teach secular things, the ways of man for it is all it knows. It is up to the church, the Body of Christ, to teach the things of God that grace, morality and peace may exist. It takes more effort than just attending church on Sunday to properly educate and raise up the next generation in the training and admonition of the Lord.

What are you doing today to raise up the next generation in a Godly manner? 

We will not hide from their children, etc. Thou must not only praise God thyself, but endeavour to transmit the memorial of his goodness to posterity. Children are their parent’s heirs; it were unnatural for a father, before he dies, to bury up his treasure in the earth where his children should not find or enjoy it; now the mercies of God are not the least part of a good man’s treasure, nor the least of his children’s inheritance, being both helps to their faith, matter for their praise, and spurs to their obedience. “Our fathers have told us what works thou didst in their days, how thou didst drive out the heathen” etc., Ps 44:1-2; from this they ground their confidence, Psalms 44:4 , “Thou art my King, O God; command deliverances for Jacob,” and excite their thankfulness, Psalms 44:8 , “In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever.” Indeed, as children are their parents heirs, so they become in justice liable to pay their parents’ debts: now the great debt which the saint at death stands charged with, is that which he owes to God for his mercies, and, therefore, it is but reason he should tie his posterity to the payment thereof. Thus mayest thou be praising God in heaven and earth at the same time. William Gurnall.