#DailyDevotion The Chief Aim Of Man Is To Praise The LORD, Father, Son & Holy Spirit
Psalm 150 Praise the LORD! Praise God in His holy place! Praise Him for the sky spread out by His power, 2praise Him for His mighty acts, praise Him according to His great majesty! 3Praise Him with a blast of a ram’s horn, praise Him with lutes and lyres, 4praise Him with tambourines and dancing, praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes, 5praise Him with loud cymbals, praise Him with crashing cymbals! 6Everything that breathes should praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
The last psalm is somewhat of a short psalm comparatively. At first glance one may not see much there but there is perhaps a bit more that meets the eye just glancing at it.
We first have the initial call to praise the LORD. LORD here is Yah, which many believe to be distinct from Yahweh. It is a distinct name of God. We will see this name in the closing verse both times for LORD there.
Next comes a series of ten calls to praise God. Ten is a number of completion or perfection. Hence we could say that it is a call to a perfect praise of God.
Now what does this perfect praise of the LORD consist of? In verses 1 and 2 we have praise for different aspects of God. He is to be praised in His holy place, that is the temple. He has placed His name there and promises to be there for His people. He hears their prayers and receives their sacrifices offered to Him in faith. From the earth below, we look up. We now praise Him for the sky, the heavens spread out by His power. So from the heights above to earth below and even to the quantum world we praise the LORD. Studying science somewhat gives a person an ample amount of awe to praise the LORD for His creation.
Then we praise Him for His mighty acts. We praise the LORD for His creation. We praise Him for His deliverance of the Israelites from the Egyptians. We praise Him for conquering the unrepentant peoples of Canaan and delivering the land to the Israelites. We praise Him for punishing Israel and Judah with foreign nations for worshiping foreign gods. We praise Him for restoring Judah by the hand of Cyrus, a pagan, whom He called out centuries before for this act. We praise Him for becoming man, suffering, dying, and rising again conquering sin, death and the power of the devil. We then praise Him for His majesty as He ascends to the right hand of the Father where He reigns to all eternity over all creation.
Then there is the six-fold ways of praising the LORD. There is the giving of praise to Him with various instruments common in their area. There is praising Him with dancing. To be frank, as I commented on in earlier psalms, I don’t know how we would do that today. If we did, I think it would be best outside of the sanctuary, perhaps at family events. It also would not be provocative. I think it would be more like a happy dance you see kids do when they are excited. It really isn’t part of the western culture to dance for God. But hey, if you want, give it a try.
Then there is the two-fold call to praise Yah again in the last verse. That gives us a Trinity of calls to praise Yah. One for each person of the Trinity. Three calls, one name, one divine being, and three distinct persons who have that name and are each God. If you have breath, which Yah has breathed into us, you are called to praise Him with your whole being. That is the ultimate and fulfillment of being human, praising the LORD our God, our Maker, Redeemer, Justifier and Sanctifier.
Merciful and gracious Father, give us Your Holy Spirit that we may rightly praise You, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and find in giving You praise the joy of fulfilling our purpose as Your creation and Your children. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.