One of the major ways that David, the writer of Psalm 145, praises God is by telling others of God’s greatness (vv. 3 and 6). Another is in his command to pass on the memory of God’s mighty acts to the next generation.
One generation shall praise Thy works to another, and shall declare Thy mighty acts (v. 4).
What testimony of God’s great works can you pass on to your children and grandchildren? The LORD charged the people of Israel to be sure to tell their children after them of how He delivered them from bondage in Egypt; and to observe the Passover at the appointed time every year – even after they entered the Promised Land of Canaan – to remember His mighty act of deliverance.
And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come saying, “What is this?” then you shall say to him, “With a powerful hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery” (Exodus 13:14).
Many of you have heard me tell of our own family’s deliverance day when God delivered us from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August of 1990. It’s a day we have set up as a family memorial. At the time we had a one-year old child and a second on the way; so we have had to tell the story over and over to all of our children so they would know how God delivered us from a difficult situation over which we had no control. All of us have had those life-changing and/or life-threatening moments when God stepped in and performed a mighty act – beginning with the day of our salvation. I encourage us all to mark those days, and then to declare those mighty acts of God to the generations after us, so that His glory will go forth through them.