"1 Praise the LORD, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples.
2 For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD." - Psalm 117
Powerful psalm!
As human beings, we often only do things when we are given the reason first. But to the psalmist, doing it first is more important than the reason. God is who He is, and we worship God because He is who He is, not for a good reason! Bit of ot os a reason we need, the reason simply blows us away.
(1) "2a For great is His love toward us ..." Do we, as human beings, have the ability to love? Undeniably we do, but so very often we do not love, but we choose to hate, to lust. Then we say God hates too. God has burned down nations and ordered the massacre of people. Oh surely, God hates. But God hates sin, not people. Human beings hate people first. More than just that, God weeps whenever He destroys. He is a compassionate God.
(2) "2b ... and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever." With the rise in divorce cases that we have in modern society, I find it hard to agree that human beings are faithful. We probably have more fivorces in this modern age, than anything else before. God is faithful everyday. He ensures that the suns rises from the east and sets in the west. He ensures that we have oxygen replenished every single moment. I cannot imagine a more faithful person than God.
What more reason do we need to "2c Praise the LORD"? Let us seek to be committed to our spiritual journey to Christlikeness! Let us seek to be faithful to God and loving to those who need love.
Amen.
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