Sing Your Praises to God on High

Verses: Psalms 8 : 1 - 9

Song inspired by the chapter:  Song has been uploaded from YouTube.com and is not my original.

My thoughts about the verses:

We need to lift up our praises to God each day.  We need to realize that we are only a small part of God's creation.  That God loves us and feels that we are an important part of the creation.  We need to remember that every day that we are alive is a day to lift up praises to God.

Think on this moment the Heavenly Parent loved us so much that the Son was sent to save us.  If God loved us this much isn't it important to offer our praises to the Heavenly Parent.  Jesus sacrificed his life on the cross to take away our sins.  With this in mind isn't it important to offer our praises to the Messiah.

God loved us so much that we were placed over things of this Earth.  Think back to Adam and Eve they were given the task of naming ever creature.  We are to take care of all the birds, animals on the land, and the creatures of the sea.  We are also to take care of the entire environment in which we live in.

God provided all this for us so we should offer praise by taking care of what God has given to us.

We should do everything in our power to protect the Earth we live on.  This means protecting not only the birds of the sky, the animals of the land and the fish in the sea, but also protecting the people God created.

The Native Americans are a good example to follow.  They realized that the Creator gave them the land they lived on.  It wasn't a property they owned but a place that they were to cherish.  When they killed an animal they used every part.  They did not just kill to have treasures they killed the animals to survive.

Today I am thinking of all the senseless deaths of animals throughout the world.  I am thinking of the animals  that are killed for sport.  I weep for the elephants that are murdered for their tusks.  The animals that are killed because they get into fishing nets meant for other fish.  We need to understand that the  planet is being destroyed because of over uses of natural resources.  The pollution that is killing the ozone and the air we breathe.  I am stressed about the children that go hungry because of the lack of food, while others waste food and throw it away like it is nothing.

Our world can change and we can become the protectors that we need to be.  Then we can Sing our praises is a way of showing to God that we are grateful for what we have been given.  It also shows that we honor God by lifting up our praises.  The fact is that we as humans need to look at what all we have been given and be grateful for it.  The human race has been given so much that we should always offer up our thankfulness to the one that created the Heavens the Earth and us.

Prayer:

Dear God we lift up our praises to you.  We thank you for all that you have done and will do in our life. We praise you for loving us so much to send the son to perish on the cross.  We honor you for the days that you have given each and every one of us.  Help us lift praises up to you in the morning, noon and a night.  In the name of the Creator we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Are you lifting up praises to God?  Are you thanking God for caring enough to send the son to make us free?  Do you show gratefulness to God for the creation that was made?