#DailyDevotions Praise and bless the wonderful and awesome Name of the LORD
Psalm 145 I will praise You highly, my God and King, and bless Your name forever. 2I will bless You every day and praise Your name forever. 3The LORD is great; He deserves high praise. His greatness is unsearchable. 4Those of one generation will praise to the next what you have done and tell about Your mighty acts. 5I will think of the splendid glory of Your majesty and the wonderful things You have done. 6People will speak about the power of Your awesome deeds, and I will tell about Your greatness. 7They will tell what they remember of Your great goodness and shout out loud about Your righteousness.
Psalm 145 is another acrostic song where the first letter of each verse is a different letter of the alphabet in order. I mentioned this so you can appreciate the artistry of the psalmist. Now these opening 7 verses probably should have made me have a little more compassion upon a number of praise bands these days as they speak out praising God, talk about how people will talk about His awesome deeds and His greatness and shouting aloud about His righteousness but they never actually do it, At least not in these verses. However the following verses will get around giving us reasons for doing this.
These verses exist to stir up our hearts to bless, praise, and gift thanks for the LORD our God. They’re there to incite our spirit to recognize how awesome, wonderful, and splendid is the God of Israel who saves us. The poet himself is transported into the eternity of the LORD as he twice forgets his own mortality and speaks of praising and blessing the name of the LORD forever and ever. One need only read the Torah to see the marvelous works of the Lord and the bringing to His people the salvation of the world. As we read the New Testament and see the same LORD in the flesh teaching us his word, healing the sick, casting out demons, feeding us miraculously, dying on the cross and rising from the dead and the third day, The thoughts and feelings of these verses should swell in our hearts and we also give the LORD thanks and praise for what He’s done in the New Testament.
You and I are called here then to praise and bless the name of the LORD. We are called to tell a new generation all of the marvelous things the LORD has done. NOT Only do we have the biblical witness of all the things the LORD Has Done in both the old and the New Testaments, We have our own witness but how the LORD has acted in our lives. He has calmed our consciences. He has given peace to our souls in the midst of trials and tribulations. The LORD has answered our prayers.
If this were not enough, Psalmist tells us how the greatness of the LORD is unsearchable. All we need to do is look into the skies with our most powerful telescopes, Or Plum the depths of creation the most powerful microscopes, to know how limited is our knowledge of the creation He has made. As we pierce into the workings of a cell or we look out into the universe watching stars being born, we see how true it is that the greatness of the Lord is unsearchable.
Oh gracious most merciful God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, how great and marvelous is Your Name, how awesome are all Your deeds. May we never cease to be amazed and all Your goodness and give You thanks and praise forever and ever. Amen