All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests. You're listening to Join the Journey

podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. Thanks for joining. I am in the podcast studio with my good friend.

It's Lauren Atkinson. Hey, happy to be back. Glad to have you back, Lauren. Today we're reading Psalm 145,

and we gave you a prompt, a fun prompt. I'm a big fan of this one.

Why is it important to tell future generations about the Lord? What you got for us?

So Psalm 145 is about the unsearchable greatness in God's abundant goodness.

Unsearchable greatness and God's abundant goodness. Yes, and he is not

just great and powerful in his glory far away by any means. He's near and personal. He initiates with us

and is in relationship with us, the people that he created and knows and loves. And so that's helpful

context for why we're about to talk about the importance of talking

about who God is.

We first have to know who he is for ourselves before we're telling people about him.

Totally.

And so context for this Psalm is actually the last Psalm in the book of Psalms that was written by David.

And so as it's highlighting God's greatness and goodness, David

starts it off in verse one and he says, I will extol you, my God and king, and bless your name

forever and ever. Lauren, let me ask you this. What does extol mean? To glorify, to praise,

to make much of, I would say. What do you think? Is that right? Yeah, that's right.

For those who, you know, I knew the answer. I just, you know, for anyone who didn't know what extol meant,

I just want to make sure. Yeah. Yeah. And so he says, I will extol my God and king and bless his name

forever. And every day, I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord and greatly

to be praised. His greatness is unsearchable. So if you're hearing that, you're hearing a lot of

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