In Psalm 78:9–32, God exposes a generational pattern of forgetfulness that distorts His character, replaces trust with demands, and hardens hearts into rebellion. Israel’s failure wasn’t a lack of evidence—God acted powerfully again and again—but a failure of trust that led them to question His goodness and redefine Him on their own terms. Even when God gave them exactly what they demanded, their hearts did not change, revealing that the problem was not circumstances or memory but covenant failure. Psalm 78 ultimately points beyond Israel—and beyond us—to the need for a faithful representative. Where God’s people forget, test, and rebel, Jesus remembers, trusts, and obeys. As the true Son, Christ succeeds where Israel failed and bears the judgment our forgetfulness deserves, breaking the cycle once and for all. The Christian life, then, is not sustained by our ability to remember God, but by the grace that God remembers us and has given His Son for us.