Friday, September 25, 2009

Psalms 148:7-13, 150:6

I read these last three chapters of Psalms and they all say the same thing, Praise Gods name. There were a few verses thought that really caught my attention. Chapter 148:7-13. Here we find a list of who should praise the Lord. It starts with the deep and all the elements praising his name, and then goes into the mountains and hills, the trees, Beasts, creeping things and birds, kings, princes, and all people of the earth, judges, men and women, old and young. And why do all these things need to praise God?

"Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; His glory is above the eart and heaven." (Psalms 148:13)
it then says in chapter 150
"Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord." (Psalms 150:6)

When I read all these verses, I couldn't help but remember the time when Jesus was in the temple and all the people came to him praising his name and the Pharassese wanted them to be quieted and Jesus said that if they were quieted, the trees and rocks would cry out. This just really makes me think that if all these things are praising His name, then why have we, the superior and smarter race, started to only gripe and complain to God? What happened to us praising his name?
In her comment that she made on chapter 150, Ellen White, says

"We too often forget that 'Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the father of lights.'"

If we were to keep that in mind, always remembering that God is the only reason that we are alive today and that we are even able to do the most simplestic tasks, those really all are blessings given out from the thrown of God.
God bless you

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