Proclamation:
“I will sing to The Lord all my life; I
will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
May my meditation be pleasing to Him, as I rejoice in The Lord.” Psalm 104:33-34 (NIV)
Explanation:
The words of this psalm were written by King
David under the influence of The Holy Spirit of God. The psalm begins by repeating the phrase, “Bless
The Lord, O my soul …” which the psalmist also began the previous psalm. (Psalm 103:1)
This psalm of praise presents the glory and majesty of The Lord God and
recounts some of His marvelous acts and creations. David ends it by saying that he will praise
The Lord as long as he lives, and he hopes that his thoughts and reflections on
the awesomeness of God will be pleasing to Him.
Application:
We spend a lot of time thinking and
talking about things which are really insignificant and unimportant. What if we spent one whole day thinking and
talking about the things which The Lord God has done, created, and caused to
occur. The sun and the stars; the place
where rivers begin and how they flow; the cycle of water, clouds, and rain; the
beasts of the fields and the fowls of the air; the blades of grass and the
trees like the cedars of Lebanon; the majestic mountains, the fields of grains,
and the sands of the deserts; the animals both large and small; and man, so
similar and yet each is so different; these are all created by the awesome God
that we serve. It is humbling to think
of how insignificant we are in comparison to all of God’s creations. We ought to praise Him and thank Him for our
very existence, as brief as it may be. Try
spending one day thinking only thoughts which would be pleasing to God. Think on this, how long can you praise The
Lord before you stop and do something else? May the words of my mouth and the meditation
of my heart please The Lord. (Psalm 19:14)
We all should spend more time praising and pleasing The Lord.
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