Attitude of praise
Psalms is after all the Bible’s hymnbook and prayer book and as
we look back over the psalms even those that are cries of lament or anger
ultimately bring their thoughts back to praising God. ‘Bring me out of prison, so
that I may give thanks to your name’, cries David in 142. ‘How could we sing
the Lord’s song in a foreign land’ lament the exiles in 137.
And it got me wondering about the way we live our lives, Are
we as the people of God, living lives that give glory to God? Are we a thankful
people for all that God has done for us? Is worshipping God consuming us? I
wager that the answer is no. And we can make all sorts of excuses for it. It’s
unrealistic, we’re too busy, I have kids etc. etc. etc. And yet the imperative
in today’s Psalm is ‘Let everything that breathes praise the Lord! Praise the
Lord!’
And it’s more than an imperative, it’s the reason for our
being. We were created, the universe was created to praise God and bring him
glory. So for today at least let’s make sure we do what we created to do and
praise God and give him all the glory due his name.
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