Psalm 96: 2 “Sing to the Lord, bless His name; proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day.”
Dear God,
I delight to spend this special time with You again and recommit my heart and life to You. My spirit soars, as I read that many of the same ideas that are in my mind, have been written in some of the Psalms. I also am filled with joy about Your love, and to know, love and reverence You. With these experiences, it is often hard to comprehend that the whole world does not share these sentiments.
From observation, I see that when people uplift and give glory to You, they much more appreciate other people and what they bring to the individual experience of the one who did the uplifting. I wonder then why I so often keep quiet and do not tell others about Your glorious self, character and works. Please forgive me, and fill me with all that is needful for me to be as You want, as were the psalmist and other pro-claimers about Your gifts, restorative and healing deeds. For when we do uplift You, we cannot help sing with the writer, V 3 “Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among the peoples.”
By what You have revealed of Yourself, we have a personage description and history about Your doings and our greatest need of a Savour. We can only know and appreciate a little of Your character and glories as the Almighty, Majestic God and the I AM, as well as the Creator of all things, V 6 “Honour and Majesty are before Him; strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.” I imagine You as surrounded by light, and the beauty of bright gold and colours, which would bring me to my knees in deep reverence, V9 “Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth.”
I appreciate that such an experience would leave an impact that it would barely fade in the mind over long intervening period, and again I wonder how we keep silent about You in all area’s and facets of work that we know about.
Recently I have been taught that it is so good for the mind to be appreciative, as well as learn some of the statements and promises from scripture. Psalm 96: 12, 13 “Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it. Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice before the Lord. For He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with His truth.”
I am thankful for the revealed works and patience of You my God, and again choose You as my forever God.
Amen