No 10
(Praise)
In our last study on the subject of
prayer (# 229), we looked at confession; praise ought to be the next most
important part of prayer. In Psalm
50:23, we read “Whoso offereth praise
glorifieth me” When we praise God we
glorify Him. As we mentioned in other
studies, worship and praise is very important to God; as Christians, we ought
to put more effort in this area. The
Lord thought praise to be so important, that He gave us an entire book of the
Bible on that very subject – the Psalms.
It is sometimes difficult to offer the praise He truly deserves so why
not simply read five Psalms per day? On
the website www.profzebulon.org
in the Miscellaneous items, there is a reading
programme for the Psalms and Proverbs; check it out.
When we praise the Lord we say that He
is good, kind, merciful; or other attributes such as holy, just and
omnipotent. With our limited
intelligence and comprehension, these accolades that we use are from our human
frame of reference and are thus impaired; the Lord knows this, of course and
welcomes any praise we give Him.
For example…good…what is good? How can we truly appreciate how God is
good? Even Jesus Himself did not
consider Himself to be good. He said to
one follower “And he said unto him, Why
callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that
is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.” Matt