to generations to follow

Let your work be shown to your servants,

and your glorious power to their children.

Psalm 90:16

Lest we think ourselves too important… vainly delude ourselves into thinking it is our individual lives that only matter most to God… we humbly pray this prayer of Moses, the man of God. Yes, we want God’s work to be shown in our lives. Certainly we serve Him in the conviction He will show Himself in and through us right now. But our lives are limited… a point Moses already made in this prayer (Psalm 90:10-12). God’s glory transcends our spans.

And so we should pray and live… with our mortality accepted and embraced as a reminder of God’s eternal care. We want our impact of faith, our rescue in Christ, our lives that He has radically transformed by grace to ripple into generations of impact. And such is the true hope of every child that God the Father has made His own. This is the kingdom perspective of every disciple who follows Jesus and passes the baton to any who will follow behind and beyond. One generation knows God’s work. And another will know His glorious power.