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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Praise God Today, Tomorrow and Forever More


Verses: Psalms 150: 1 - 6

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




My thoughts about the verses:

Take a look at your life for just one moment.  We all have that one thing that we consider to be the most important person in our life.  We may think that our parents are the most important thing that we have in this life.  We may have a soulmate that we put before anything else.  Our children may be the most cherished thing that we have.   We may have friends that make us feel that our life is complete.

We spend a lot of our time praising the most important thing in our life.  We go out of our way to make them happy.  We buy them gifts.  We give them hugs and kisses.  We dedicate ourselves to making sure that they know how special they are to us.

We hope for love in return.  Yet, it doesn’t matter to us if it is reciprocated.  The thing that is important to us is that we show our love to them.  We are there for them no matter what happens.  We try our best to cheer them up when they are down.  We celebrate with them when they are up.  We keep them in our hearts and mind all the time.  No matter what they are the one that we care for and others know it by the way we interact with them.
Yet, I want us to stop a moment and think upon this isn’t God the reason we have this special someone in our life.  Didn’t God help us find our soulmate?  Were we not blessed with the parents we have.  Our children are the very gift of God.  It is God that brings friends in our life.

Since God has done all this for us are we really concentrating on who should be the most important person in our life?  We need to reevaluate for a moment who we should be praising.  When was the last time that you thanked God for the special people in your life?  When was the last time that you praised God for the gifts that you have been given.

This Psalm makes it clear that there should never be a time in our life that we do not lift up our praises to God.  God is worthy to be praise.  Praising God should be the most important thing in our life.  God has given us more love and compassion than we can ever give a person.  Knowing this we should offer our lives up as a witness of Gods enduring love.  We should praise God in a way that the whole world knows we have the most important thing in our life.

Praising God isn’t an option.  Is it an option for a soul mate not to show love to their other half?  Is it an option to not love the friends that God has placed in your life?  Is it an option to let that someone special not feel loved?  If these are not an option then how it is we forget to offer up praises to the one that has given this all to us. 

We are to praise God both morning and night.  We are to praise God today and forever.  We are to praise God in our low moments.  We need to praise God when we are in our best of times.  The next time that you feel the need to do something special for someone, can I suggest that you give that praise to God first.  When we praise God for the people in our life we are thanking the one that has sent them.  We are also blessing the person that we love with our commitment of love and praise to the greatest of all loves.

Prayer:

We praise you God.  Hear our praises for they are for you.  We lift our voices to sing praises to the one on High.  We lift our hands in praise to you Dear God.  We thank you for the people that you have placed in our life.  Help us never forget that you are the light that guides us.  Help us to always remember to praise you no matter what is happening.  For we know God that you are always there.  In praise we call upon your Holy Name.  Amen

Questions:

Have you thanked God for the special people in your life?  Are you praising God with all of your heart, soul and mind?  Are you worshipping the one that has made you whole?  Is today the day that you start praising God above all other things?

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