Morning Mercies

Psalm 145:4

“One generation will declare your works to the next and will proclaim your mighty acts.”

Here is a charge for all parents and grandparents. It is a command to express the greatness and goodness of God to our children/grandchildren. The testimony of one generation to the next is a crucial part of transmitting the faith generationally.

So I ask myself: “Have I told my three sons adequately of how God transformed my life in 1981? Do they know about the way the gospel swept through our family in that miraculous spring and summer and changed lives, marriages, homes? Have they ever seen the image of a little church in northeast Portland having two complete rows filled with the Matthews and Evans families on Sunday morning at the Breaking of Bread? Do they understand how addictions, immorality, despair were instantly replaced with hope, righteousness and salvation?

That was the mighty act of God in this family those many years ago. It needs to be told and re-told lest we forget and fail to give our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ the praise He is due. And to keep alive the reality of salvation and life-change Christ alone can bring.