Arise and tell

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not conceal them from their children, but tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength and His wondrous works that He has done. For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should teach them to their children, that the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born, that they may arise and tell them to their children, that they should put their confidence in God and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments.
Psalm 78:3-7

Arise and tell.

I didn't come from a family where my father told me, but I seek to be the generation that sings the praises of the Lord to the generation to come. I can so very clearly see and tell of His strength and His wondrous work in my life, in the life of our family. The testimony of Jacob is our family's testimony as well.

But even more than arising and telling my children to put their confidence in God, to not forget His works, to keep His commandments, I desire to show them. The Gospel is meant to be lived out. In Instructing a Child's Heart, Tedd and Margy Tripp write, our children "will believe that Christian faith is the genuine article if we know God- not just know about God."

Arise and tell. And know God.