Apr 22, 2007 - Giving Praise

Apr 22, 2007

It is amazing what a person can go through. How different people can view the same thing in different ways. For years some people would tell me that I could not carry a tune in a bucket even if it had a radio in it. Others thought that I could sing well enough to lead impromptu worship service. If I had listened to either one, I would have been confused. Fortunately I listen to one source:

Psa 92:1 GNB
(1) How good it is to give thanks to you, O LORD, to sing in your honor, O Most High God,

Each day that we are alive is a day to give thanks to God. It is good to do so. Not only that, but it is good to sing to Him as well. We are not to sing of what we do for Him. That is not being thankful. We are however to tell of what the Lord has done for us.

An interesting twist on this is what many translations say about this Psalm. It is a psalm for the Sabbath. Think about that. Though it is good to do these at any time, God signals out the Sabbath. If we have gone seven days without taking the time to praise Him and give thanks, then it is important that we do it on the Lord's day.

Spurgeon said of this Psalm; "Devout praise is always good, it is never out of season, never superfluous, but it is especially suitable to the Sabbath; a Sabbath without thanksgiving is a Sabbath profaned." Of all the days that we are to worship, the most joyful of them should be the sabbath.


Scriptures marked as "(GNB)" are taken from the Good News Bible – Second Edition © 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by permission.