Telling Our Story Together
Month 11: Living It Out · Family Worship
Today's Scripture
Read together: Psalm 78:4-7
4 We will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might and the wonders He has performed. 5 For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children, 6 that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children 7 that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
Memory Verse
“In everything, show yourself to be an example by doing good works. In your teaching show integrity, dignity, and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.”— Titus 2:7-8 (BSB)
📖 Bible-in-a-Year (optional)
Today's reading: Ezekiel 9-12
Reading the whole Bible in a year — do this when you have extra time. (Around Day 328 of 365 — even in judgment, God promises, "I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them.")The Heart of It
Today we gather for family worship. Our psalm gives us the very reason we do this. The writer says we "will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might and the wonders He has performed" (). Then he explains the chain. God gave His truth to the fathers. The fathers were to teach it to their children. And those children would "arise and tell their own children" (vv. 5-6). Do you see it? It's like a relay race. The good news of God gets passed from hand to hand down through the generations. Your family is one runner in a race that started thousands of years ago. And one day you'll hand the baton to the next runner. The purpose, verse 7 says, is "that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments."
This is what "living it out" comes down to as a family. We've spent this whole month learning to shine our light, work for the Lord, do justice and mercy, speak words that build people up, and be ready to give a kind answer for our hope. All of that has a beautiful destination. It's a family that tells the story. We tell the big story of what God has done in the Bible. And we tell our own family's story of how He has helped us. Every time you remember a prayer God answered, a hard time He carried you through, or the day someone in your family first trusted Jesus, you're keeping the relay going. So tonight, let's not just learn. Let's remember out loud, so the next generation sets its hope in God too.
Around the Table
Our family loves to tell the story of how good God is, so everyone remembers! You can help tell it too.
Let's do it: Take turns naming one thing God has done that makes you say, "Wow, thank You God!" Make it a happy cheer.
is like a relay race. Parents tell kids about God, and those kids tell their kids (vv. 5-6). Telling the story keeps faith alive for the future.
Let's talk: What's one true story from our family about God helping us that we should never forget?
The goal of passing the story down is "that they should put their confidence in God" (v. 7). Faith isn't automatic. Each generation must take up the baton. One day you'll be the one telling the next generation.
Let's go deeper: What part of our family's faith story do you most want to carry forward and tell someday? What gaps would you want to fill in?
💬 Conversation Starter
What's your favorite story of a time God took care of our family?— Let's tell it together. That's how the relay keeps going!
🛡️ Defending the Faith
A family that remembers and tells the real story of God's faithfulness builds children who can stand. They have firsthand testimony, not just secondhand rules. When you can say, "Here's what God has actually done for us," you're giving the most personal kind of evidence for your hope ().
For Dad · Go Deeper
is, in a sense, a job description for a Christian father. Don't hide God's works. Tell the next generation, so they will hope in Him. Notice that the psalm assumes intentional, repeated, spoken transmission. The saying "faith is more caught than taught" is only half true. Here it must also be told. Research on young people who keep their faith into adulthood consistently points to homes where parents talked openly and often about God, doubts, and real life. That's exactly the rhythm this devotional has tried to build in you. As this month on "Living It Out" closes, take stock. Are you regularly telling your kids the grand story of redemption? And are you telling them the smaller, vivid stories of God's faithfulness in your own life? Those personal testimonies are some of the most durable apologetics your children will ever own. No skeptic can argue them out of what they watched God do in their own family. Pick up the baton, and hand it on with joy.
Draws on: Natasha Crain, Keeping Your Kids on God's Side.
Let's Pray Together
"Father, thank You for all the wonderful things You have done for us. Help us never keep them to ourselves. Help us tell them to each other, and to the children who come after us. May everyone put their hope in You. Make us a family that lives it out and tells Your story. In Jesus' name, amen."
We are one runner in a long relay of faith. So we'll remember God's works and tell the story on.