A Call To Praise I Psalms

“I love you, O LORD my strength.” Psalms 18:1 With these words of praise David, proclaims the faithfulness of God. He had such great confidence in God’s strength: God was his rock, fortress, deliverer, refuge, shield, horn, and stronghold. God was everything that He needed and he found that to be true throughout his whole life. That is why he could say “I have never seen the righteous forsaken.”

For months David had survived in the rocks and crags of the rugged mountains while Saul and his armies sought his life. But he believed it was God, not the mountain fortresses, which had saved him. Nothing about David’s proclamations of love and praise was feigned. He had found that when he called to the Lord, he was “saved from his enemies” (Psalm 18:3). He had experienced a God worthy of love, dependence, trust, and exaltation.

 

When we look for an example of how or why to praise God, the Psalms give us a wonderful example:

Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.

For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods.

In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.

The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; for he is

our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. (Ps.95)

 

I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy.

Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.

The cords of death entangled me; the anguish of the grave came upon me;

I was overcome by trouble and sorrow. Then I called on the name of the LORD:

“O LORD, save me!”

The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.

The Lord protects the simple hearted; when I was in great need, he saved me.

Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.

For you, O Lord, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears,

my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

(Ps. 116:1–9)

 

For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears,

my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living.(Ps.116:1–9)

 

Spend some time Praising the God of our salvation today for He alone is worthy of all our praise.

 

 

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