Passing it on

I must confess that I have been quite resistant to blogging and social network sites. Partly, because I felt that I didn't particularly want everyone to know what I had for breakfast, and other, what seems to me, to be very superficial comments about people's lives. People are not interested in those kind of mundane things.

However, with the encouragement of two of my sons, they wanted me to share what I am thinking, and other aspects of my life which could help them know where I was at and what was going on in my life. So here I am, at the home of my third son who has helped me set up this blog.

I was reading in Psalm 78 this morning, and the first 8 verses highlight an aspect of what I feel I need to do with this blog.

Psalm 78

1 O my people, hear my teaching;

listen to the words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in parables,

I will utter hidden things, things from of old —

3 what we have heard and known,

what our fathers have told us.

4 We will not hide them from their children;

we will tell the next generation

the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord,

his power, and the wonders he has done.

5 He decreed statutes for Jacob

and established the law in Israel,

which he commanded our forefathers

to teach their children,

6 so the next generation would know them,

even the children yet to be born,

and they in turn would tell their children.

7 Then they would put their trust in God

and would not forget his deeds

but would keep his commands.

8 They would not be like their forefathers —

a stubborn and rebellious generation,

whose hearts were not loyal to God,

whose spirits were not faithful to him.

NIV

The point that I got from reading this psalm was that fathers have a responsibility to be passing on to the next generation the thing that they had learned from God. The purpose was so that the next generation too would trust God and keep his commands. The rest of the psalm deals with various aspects of the works of God and the how the people responded and the consequences.

So here we are using modern technology to communicate with the next generation.