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November 25: Forming the faith of the new generation.

Psalms 78:1-17:
Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; that the generation to come might know them, the children who would be born, that they may arise and declare them to their children, that they may set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments; and may not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set its heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful to God. The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. They did not keep the covenant of God; they refused to walk in His law, and forgot His works and His wonders that He had shown them. Marvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. He divided the sea and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters stand up like a heap. In the daytime also He led them with the cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. He split the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink in abundance like the depths. He also brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. But they sinned even more against Him by rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.


This psalm is a retelling of the history of Israel from the time they left Egypt until the reign of David. It is a very interesting summary and I encourage you to read the chapter completely.
It is a psalm written as a reflection and warning for adults, parents or those who are in charge of children and young people.
One of the best teachers for human beings is history. Learning from the past and not repeating the same mistakes is a practical way to be able to illustrate with examples to the new generation as established by God in the law. Not only so that they would learn to be true followers and worshipers of the Lord, following God with all their heart, but also so that they would not forget the Lord and commit the same sins as their ancestors.
This is a great lesson for everyone. We like to tell our children about our achievements, goals achieved, feats of grandparents, renowned positions achieved by a member of the family, etc. but we avoid telling the mistakes that we also made in the past or any member of the family. Perhaps out of embarrassment or for not continuing to remember the pain caused by that loved one who made a mistake.
Although it is painful, we must think about what things or how we must also tell those mistakes. Let's tell the good, the bad and the ugly. That our children learn from our bad decisions or consequences that we have committed in our lives so that they don't repeat history. Let them know that we are human beings who made mistakes, that we faced painful consequences and that we learned from them. This exercise can be done according to their ages and without necessarily going to specific details, but focusing on the moral and spiritual lesson.

Usually the enemy will seek to bring down the next generation of the family with the same traps. Israel continually fell into idolatry. They carried idols from Egypt, when they went out and walked through the desert, and even when they arrived in the promised land, they worshiped the new idols of the land where God was going to bless them. They followed the idols of Egypt and Canaan. They tempted the Lord many times with their...