Storytellers of the Mighty Works

One generation shall commend Your works to another. That is the calling. We are storytellers.

The people of God have always been a people with a story to tell. Israel told their children about the Red Sea, the manna, the conquest. They built altars and named places so that when the next generation asked, 'What does this mean?' the elders could say, 'Let me tell you what God did.'

We do the same. We tell the story of the cross. We tell the story of the empty tomb. We tell what God has done in history, and we tell what He has done in our own lives. This is discipleship. Not a program. Not a curriculum. Just faithful people telling the next generation about the mighty works of God.

But here is the question: are we telling it? Are we commending His works to the generation coming behind us? Or are we so caught up in our own lives, our own struggles, our own preferences, that we have forgotten to be storytellers?

The church is not built on clever strategies. It is built on the faithful proclamation of what God has done. And that proclamation happens in a hundred small moments — around the dinner table, in the car, in the margin of an ordinary Tuesday. It happens when we say, 'Let me tell you what God did for me. Let me tell you what He can do for you.'

The greatest work, of course, is the work of Christ. Born of a virgin. Lived a sinless life. Died on a cross. Rose from the grave. Conquered sin and death. That is the story we are called to tell. And every other story we tell — every testimony, every answered prayer, every moment of grace — points back to that one.

So be a storyteller today. Tell someone what God has done.