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Title:
"Praise
Him!"
Author:
JoyPals-JoyPals.com-ReformedWomen Editor-Publisher with commentary from
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty
firmament! Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to
His excellent greatness! Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet;
Praise Him with the lute and harp! Praise Him with the timbrel and
dance; Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes! Praise Him with
loud cymbals; Praise Him with clashing cymbals! Let everything
that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord! ”
Psalm 150
Dear Reader: We most assuredly live in
"perilous times" as men wax worse and worse and our eyes behold evil
upon evil, war upon war, heartache upon heartache, troubles within and
without, a moving away from the truth of God to the lie of the devil and
the error and inventions of men. What a joy to read this psalm and
to read our brother Spurgeon's commentary on it. A reminder that
no matter what comes in heaven and earth, our God is working all for our
good and for His own glory to the praise of His glorious grace.
We, as His covenant Bride, are blessed beyond measure and that alone
gives us reason to rejoice and praise Him. Praise Him today for
all His wondrous works and for His goodness to you.
"Praise ye the LORD. Hallelujah! The exhortation is
to all things in earth or in heaven. Should they not all declare the
glory of him for whose glory they are, and were created? Jehovah, the
one God, should be the one object of adoration. To give the least
particle of his honour to another is shameful treason; to refuse to
render it to him is heartless robbery.
Praise God in his sanctuary. Praise El, or the strong one, in his holy
place. See how power is mentioned with holiness in this change of names.
Praise begins at home. "In God's own house pronounce his praise." The
holy place should be filled with praise, even as of old the high priest
filled the sanctum sanctorum with the smoke of sweet smelling incense.
In his church below and in his courts above hallelujahs should be
continually presented. In the person of Jesus God finds a holy dwelling
or sanctuary, and there he is greatly to be praised. He may also be said
to dwell in holiness, for all his ways are right and good; for this we
ought to extol him with heart and with voice. Whenever we assemble for
holy purposes our main work should be to present praises unto the Lord
our God.
Praise him in the firmament of his power. It is a blessed thing that in
our God holiness and power are united. Power without righteousness would
be oppression, and righteousness without power would be too weak for
usefulness; but put the two together in an infinite degree and we have
God. What an expanse we have in the boundless firmament of divine power!
Let it all be filled with praise. Let the heavens, so great and strong,
echo with the praise of the thrice holy Jehovah, while the sanctuaries
of earth magnify the Almighty One."1/
For the month of September give yourself daily to
praise and thanksgiving of our glorious God. Your heart will be
filled and your life abundantly blessed for it!
"Therefore by Him let us continually
offer the sacrifice of praise to God,
that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name."
Hebrews 13:15
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1/ Charles H. Spurgeon, "Treasury of David" - Psalm 100
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