This Will Be Written For The Generation To Come

From Psalm 102 we read:

You, O Lord, abide forever,
and Your name to all generations. (v 12)

This will be written for the generation to come,
that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.

For He looked down from His holy height;
from heaven the Lord gazed upon the earth,
To hear the groaning of the prisoner,
To set free those who were doomed to death,

That men may tell of the name of the Lord (vs 18-21)


This psalm reminds me that I am more than a cog in the wheel of time, spinning out my days with no purpose.  One day I met the Master and His Spirit formed in me a desire to honor, serve and praise Him.  He is good!  He is trustworthy.  He has not disappointed.

It also reminds me that my life is not my own.  I find myself as the psalmist did with shortening days in a world filled with prisoners, sick and in self centered misery, who are condemned to spend eternity apart from the loving Lord.  Although I can only do what I can do I am charged with proclaiming to this generation the mercies of the Lord with the hope that many more will be able to join in the chorus of praise to their Savior.

And I am charged as well to remind this world the old saying that God has no grandchildren.  I proclaim to my children and others what the Lord has done and is doing in my life.  They must have their own God stories to proclaim, to family, to friends and to the next generation.  We change, but the Lord does not.  One day all generations of the redeemed with join together to worship and praise Him.

Of old you founded the earth,
And the heavens are the work of your hands.
Even they will perish,
but You endure;
And all of them will wear out like a garment;
Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.

But You are the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.
The children of Your servants will continue,
And their descendants will be established before You.  (vs 25-28)