From Psalm 102: Later

“This will be written for a later generation, and a people who have not yet been created will praise the Lord….” (v. 18)

I don’t know about you, but I constantly find myself in need of God’s promises now. Whether I am shipwrecked by sin or by shame or by doubt, I turn to theWord I have trusted, and I am renewed. It has been—He has been—my strength and my hope and my confidence.

That’s pretty much the faith norm. It’s been like that for thousands of years. Every generation has needed it.

And that is precisely the point:

What we have been given in the Word—every promise and every fulfillment—is intended for them, too. It is as much for those who will inherit from us as it is for, well, us. The Good News is a gift we hand down to the later generations. We teach our children. We make generational investments. And we pray, hoping that those yet to be born will hear and know and trust this Word, too.

Cherish this in your now. Share it for their later.

— Tyler