Praises Lifted to God who Provides all our Needs

Verses: Psalms 147: 1 - 20

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

My thoughts about the verses:

We need only to realize how important to God to see the depth of God’s love for us.  God provides for all of our needs.  God doesn’t hide in the shadows expecting us to find what we need.  Instead God provides the water we need through the rain sent to earth.  The food we need by providing for the plants and animals.  Everything that we need is given unto us.

Think on this a moment God knows that the raven is in need and responds.  God answers the sound of the animals by giving them sustenance.  Our God then is faithful to us.  Our God loves us and we need to offer praise up to God.

We need to understand that God doesn’t care about what we have done.  Instead, God cares about what we have trusted in.  God wants us to trust in the strength and power of the one that created us.  There is nothing here on earth as powerful as the one who created the earth. 

We try so hard in our lives to prove that we are better and deserve the rewards that God has for us.  Yet, do us truly understanding what we are saying to God.  We are saying that the death on the cross was not good enough to save us.  We are attempting to say that we must give something, do something, and be something to inherit the Kingdom of God.  Yet in all reality all God wants is our faith.

God deserves to be praised because there is nothing here on this earth that can give us what God has freely given to each and every one of us.  Jesus died on that cross.  Not expecting us to do anything but to accept the gift of life.  We need to accept the gift and offer praises for that is the one thing that we can give to our savior.

Prayer:

We thank you God.  We praise the one that has given us all we need.  We praise the one that cares for us.  We thank you for giving us the perfect gift.  Help us to accept that it is not through our might that we are saved.  Instead we are saved through the healing and saving grace of Jesus.  In your Holy Name we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Are you trying to do things to earn your way to Heaven?  Have you accepted that you cannot do anything big enough or good enough to deserve the gift of everlasting life?  Are you willing to trust that God loves you and wants to freely give you the precious gift of life?  Are you willing to accept that gift and then look unto the hills and praise God?  Are you willing to just let go and let God do the work?  Are you willing to praise God for just being the creator and savior we need in our life?