DAD'S RAMBLINGS -- LIFE PRAISE

DAD'S RAMBLINGS – LIFE PRAISE

"Give unto the LORD; O you mighty ones, Give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the LORD the glory do to His name. Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness." (Psalm 29:1-2)

What do you give to someone who has everything?  Often we are faced with that question when we are trying to decide what to give someone for their birthday or for Christmas. What do you give God who has everything – who needs nothing? He has the universe at his beck and call. Whatever earthly things I could give Him would pale in comparison.

What could I give God than would please Him more than anything since He does not need anything? David, the psalmist, says that there is one thing we give God that is truly a blessing to Him – glory, honor and worship.

This is more than lip-service. It is easy to honor God with our lips, but it is another thing to give life-service. That is, bringing praise and honor to God through the way we live. He says to worship God in the beauty of holiness.

I can give Him worship and praise and glory. Consider what the Apostle Paul wrote to the Christians at Thessalonika: "Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power, that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ" (II Thessalonians 1:11-12). This was Paul's attitude: "according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so not also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain" (Philippians 1:20-21). By his life or by his death, he wanted to glorify God.

God is glorified and magnified, not just by what we say, but by how we live and how we die. May our lives be praise to our wonderful Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Our holy living brings God honor. As the psalm says, "Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

Love, Dad