Thoughts for another day

January 31, 2012

Today's verse: Ps. 30:12. so that my soul may praise you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever. (NRSV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

O it is so good to praise the Lord and always give Him thanks.  It's like singing the most melodious song to the heart and when the heart it delighted, the refrains coming from it, still knowledge of anything else but that which is in its deep recesses, which is our worship to Him. When we praise and thank the Lord, He is pleased and hearkens to our call and we get mixed in Him and forget everything, but the beauty of our God which we are privileged to behold.

Praise from our lips to His Majesty, the God of heaven and earth, is but our way of acknowledging Him as God, our Father on high who is always there for us, not because we praise Him but because He has said so, and therefore deep inside, our hearts yearn to sing His praises and glorify Him.  In it we consent to His will in our lives and are keen to abide by His most precious Word.  In praising Him, we're not adding anything to His glory, but gain favor from Him as He sees us praising Him and His heart melts and He yields.  That's why great things happen when we praise Him and importantly, His Holy Spirit, who loves it when we praise the Father, comes and lives with us and makes us strong in our faith and confident in our approach to the Holy Throne, the Mercy Seat.

In thanks we tell our Father how much we appreciate Him being with us.  We need to learn to thank Him even when things aren't going our way for thanking Him shows our confidence in His Word and in His power to redeem us, come what may.  In sincere thanks that we place before Him, we bare open our inmost being which has met Him even before the world began, and we show our gratitude, perhaps with tears in our eyes, to Him the Most High, who can turn heaven and earth upside down in reaching out to us.  My friend to the normal faithless eyes, this seems like something from the realm of fiction, but with eyes of faith, it's a possibility, for God dwells in an atmosphere of faith and in that atmosphere there's nothing but possibility and love and mercy and glory; therefore the psalmist says, I will give praises to You and thank You for ever O LORD, my God.