Applications

Psalms 102:18 KJV

This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.

I find three lessons from this verse:

A practical application

God is forever willing to lift up and encourage the downtrodden. Just as the Psalmist poured out his complaint and was comforted, so every generation may trust the Lord on their behalf.

An anthropological application

Each generation and in fact every individual is a new creation. Something exists which never existed before. Here is a refutation of reincarnation and of the idea that all of the souls that will ever exist already exist and just inhabit a body at conception

A bibliological application

The message of the Bible transcends generations. God has so moved that what was written to the original reader is of equal value to a reader millennia later.