My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together! I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
--Psalm 34:2-4
Have you ever wondered why the Scripture instructs us to praise God? Three reasons can be found in the verses above from Psalm 34.
First of all, praising the Lord encourages others. I think you’d be amazed at how people, Christian and non-Christian alike, respond to something as positive as honest and sincere praise to God when something good or bad happens to you.
Second, praising God naturally brings fellowship. There is a closeness…a bond…that is created when you’re praising God together.
And last, praising the Lord gives you power for your day-to-day life. I don’t know what you may be facing today, be it a temptation you can’t let go of or a sin you can’t escape. Whatever it is, praise will bring you out of it!
My friend, God responds to your honest, genuine praise of Him. So I urge you to make praise a habit no matter what you may be going through!
MAKE A PRIORITY OF PRAISE REGARDLESS OF YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES
The Result of Rejecting God
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
by Dr. Paul Chappell
“Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.”
Psalm 49:11–13
The reality of God is seen all around us in creation, yet men have gone to great lengths to concoct an alternate explanation. The faith required to believe the various theories put forward to explain both the universe and human life through evolution is far greater than the faith required to believe that God made the world as He said in the Bible. Men do not believe in God because they do not want to face an authority with the right and power to judge them. They don’t even want to think about Him. Romans 1:28 says, “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.”
God is the only one who is eternal and gives immortality. Yet when people turn their backs on Him, they do not give up on believing in eternity—they just falsely believe that they can create their own version of immortality apart from God. This is not a new trend. It was this spirit of rejection of God that led to the attempt to build a great tower at Babel. “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth” (Genesis 11:4). All such efforts are doomed to failure because they are built on a foundation of rejecting God and His revealed truth. Only when we follow His path can we have a true hope for eternity.
Today's Growth Principle:
Understanding the truth of who God is gives us wisdom to walk in His ways.
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