“PRAISE THE LORD!”

Psalms 146:1-5                                      (ESV)

“1 “PRAISE THE LORD”! “PRAISE THE LORD”, O my soul! 

2 I will “PRAISE THE LORD” as long as I live; I will sing praises to my GOD while I have my being. 

3 Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. 

4 When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish. 

5 Blessed is he whose help is the GOD of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his GOD..”

AMAZING is the only way that describes how GOD works in my life.  A friend posted this morning about GOD answering NO.  I responded “I use to get annoyed when GOD didn’t answer in the affirmative as soon as I prayed.  But the I learned that HE may just enjoy hearing from me so much that I am made to WAIT ON THE LORD just so I will continue going to HIM for my desires.  Then I found out that my desires had “morphed”!?!🤔🤔🤔”.  

We are not left on this earth for ALMIGHTY GOD to solely display HIS SOVEREIGNTY by giving us blessings.  Romans 1:20 and surrounding verse says “For HIS invisible attributes, namely, HIS eternal power and divine nature, have been CLEARLY PERCEIVED, ever since the creation of the world, IN THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE. So they are without excuse!”  Even those who choose to NOT acknowledge our CREATOR as GOD can CLEARLY PERCEIVE that HE is GOD, and one day they will acknowledge HIM (Romans 14:11)!  

So why do we act as though we are defeated at times, surrendering to a defeated foe?  Earlier this morning I wrote on another friends wall “King David messed up terribly when he slept with Bathsheba and she became pregnant.  He tried to cover his sin, but the killing of her husband was known by GOD.  He wound up marrying Bathsheba and their child conceived in sin died.  A following child (Solomon) was mentioned in Matthew 1:6 in the ancestry of JESUS!  “and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah”.  GOD has a PLAN for you to Glorify HIM, not to elevate yourself, but to elevate HIM!!!”

This PLAN isn’t about how righteous I can live for CHRIST.  Now I love HIM and my heartfelt desire is to live for HIM with my every breath, but HIS PLAN is far better than anything that I can accomplish on my own.  HE has HIS PLAN and I will “PRAISE THE LORD” that HE has CHOSEN me to be a part of HIS PLAN.  I will “PRAISE THE LORD” as long as I live;  I will sing praises to my GOD while I have my being”.  HIS PLAN is being fulfilled in my life, not because I am worthy, but because HE IS GOD!!!