Post by Les Brewer on Jan 4, 2024 19:36:45 GMT
*_OH THAT WE PRAISE THE LORD!!!_*
O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men.
— Psalm 107:8
The greatest challenge of the children of Israel in the wilderness while on their way to the promised land was their inconsistency in praising God. Their murmuring and complaining was greater than the time they praised God. The recorded time of their quality praise to God was immediately after the crossing of the red sea. Where Moses and Miriam led the people to praise God for He has triumphed gloriously. But immediately after the songs of praise for their deliverance, in the same chapter when they came to Marah, the scripture said "And the people murmured against Moses..." Forgetting the deliverance and the songs of praise that they sang a few moments ago. This is the same challenge with many Christians today, where we can easily forget what the Lord has done and complained bitterly.
If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified. Let us daily praise God for *common mercies*—common as we frequently call them, and yet so priceless, that when deprived of them and we are not shown these mercies, we are ready to perish. Let us bless God for the eyes with which we behold the sun, for the health and strength to walk abroad, for the bread we eat, for the raiment we wear. Let us praise Him that we are not cast out among the hopeless, or confined among the guilty; let us thank Him for liberty, for friends, for family associations and comforts; let us praise Him, in fact, for everything which we receive from His bounteous hand, for we deserve little, and yet are most plenteously endowed.
All things being equal, beloved, the sweetest and the loudest note in our songs of praise should be of redeeming love(our salvation). God’s redeeming acts towards His chosen are forever the favourite themes of their praise. If we know what redemption means, let us not withhold our sonnets of thanksgiving. We have been redeemed from the power of our corruptions, uplifted from the depth of sin in which we were naturally plunged. We have been led to the cross of Christ—our shackles of guilt have been broken off; we are no longer slaves, but children of the living God, and can antedate the period when we shall be presented before the throne without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. Even now by faith we wave the palm-branch and wrap ourselves about with the fair linen which is to be our everlasting array, and shall we not unceasingly give thanks to the Lord our Redeemer?
Child of God, will you be silent? Awake, awake, you the inheritors of glory, and lead your captivity captive, as you cry with David, “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name.” Let the new year begin with new songs.
"Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness."
"Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder."
"Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing."
"Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders."
May God Almighty bless us and grant us the spirit and the garment of praise this year and beyond in Jesus Name!
Have a wonderful and a blessed day!
God bless us all.
O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men.
— Psalm 107:8
The greatest challenge of the children of Israel in the wilderness while on their way to the promised land was their inconsistency in praising God. Their murmuring and complaining was greater than the time they praised God. The recorded time of their quality praise to God was immediately after the crossing of the red sea. Where Moses and Miriam led the people to praise God for He has triumphed gloriously. But immediately after the songs of praise for their deliverance, in the same chapter when they came to Marah, the scripture said "And the people murmured against Moses..." Forgetting the deliverance and the songs of praise that they sang a few moments ago. This is the same challenge with many Christians today, where we can easily forget what the Lord has done and complained bitterly.
If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified. Let us daily praise God for *common mercies*—common as we frequently call them, and yet so priceless, that when deprived of them and we are not shown these mercies, we are ready to perish. Let us bless God for the eyes with which we behold the sun, for the health and strength to walk abroad, for the bread we eat, for the raiment we wear. Let us praise Him that we are not cast out among the hopeless, or confined among the guilty; let us thank Him for liberty, for friends, for family associations and comforts; let us praise Him, in fact, for everything which we receive from His bounteous hand, for we deserve little, and yet are most plenteously endowed.
All things being equal, beloved, the sweetest and the loudest note in our songs of praise should be of redeeming love(our salvation). God’s redeeming acts towards His chosen are forever the favourite themes of their praise. If we know what redemption means, let us not withhold our sonnets of thanksgiving. We have been redeemed from the power of our corruptions, uplifted from the depth of sin in which we were naturally plunged. We have been led to the cross of Christ—our shackles of guilt have been broken off; we are no longer slaves, but children of the living God, and can antedate the period when we shall be presented before the throne without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. Even now by faith we wave the palm-branch and wrap ourselves about with the fair linen which is to be our everlasting array, and shall we not unceasingly give thanks to the Lord our Redeemer?
Child of God, will you be silent? Awake, awake, you the inheritors of glory, and lead your captivity captive, as you cry with David, “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name.” Let the new year begin with new songs.
"Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness."
"Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder."
"Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing."
"Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders."
May God Almighty bless us and grant us the spirit and the garment of praise this year and beyond in Jesus Name!
Have a wonderful and a blessed day!
God bless us all.
