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I want to begin with a questions, are you thankful?
If so what are you thankful for?
How many people are thankful they had a car to drive to church this morning?
I know I would not want to walk the 7 miles or so to church this morning.
If I didn’t have a car I would be attending the Clover Creek Church of the Brethren it’s about a half mile from my house.
I am thankful for my computer and preaching software.
I am thankful for my coffee pot and my hot shower.
In our thankfulness this morning, how many of us praised God for these blessings?
If we should praise him for these temporal things, how much more for our spiritual blessings!
As we open our Bibles to Psalm 103 this morning, I pray that God will open our eyes to his greatness and give us a heart of praise.
I want to discuss several reasons this morning, why you should praise God.
First, you should praise God for what he has done.
If you will look at verse 2, “Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits—.”
You should praise him for what he has done for you!
Before we look at the benefits, let us first look at what it means to praise.
According to the Dictionary of Biblical Imagery,
“A helpful signpost to understanding the praise psalm is knowing that the English word praise originally meant “to set a price on” or “to appraise.”
From this came the idea that to praise means to commend the worth of someone or something.
The psalms of praise celebrate and revere the worthiness of God.”
So what has God done that deserves praise?
First, all good things in our life are from God. Let’s look at verse 5, “who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”
God has provided you with everything in your life that we count as a blessing.
Recall from this morning, did you wake up in a house?
Who provided that?
God.
Did it have hot water?
Who provided that?
God.
God provided the builders of your home with the skill to build it and he is the one who provided the wood to build it.
He gave you the ability and skill to earn the money to pay for it.
This verse also states that he renews your strength like the eagle’s strength.
He gave you the strength to get out of bed this morning.
You opened our eyes this morning thanks to God’s grace and mercy.
Praise The Lord?
That brings us to the second benefit, God protects us from death every day.
Look at verse 4, “who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy.”
The pit is a metaphor or a symbol for the grave or death.
We can thank God for everyday.
Everyday he protects us from death as we travel in cars and planes.
He got us all here this morning safely.
Praise The Lord? Another way he protects us from death is divine healing.
All healing is from God whether it is a miracle or medicine.
Who gave the doctors their wisdom and ability?
God! Who gave scientists the ability to make medications?
God!
Everyday is a gift from God, so let us praise Him for that!
Amen?
That brings us to our final benefit, God provides us with salvation.
Also look at verse 3
And verses 11 and 12,
Recall from Romans 3:23 all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, so we all have iniquities that need forgiven.
What is the penalty of those sins?
According to Romans 6:23, the wages of sin is death!
That is why Jesus, the very Son of God, had to come.
He lived the perfect life with out sin.
Therefore, He could take your place on the cross where you deserved to die for your sins.
The righteous for the unrighteous, the just for the unjust, that is the only way for God’s holy, righteous, wrath to be satisfied.
On the third day Jesus was raised from the dead to defeat death, which provides our eternal healing from all our iniquities.
Praise the Lord!
I hope this story never gets old.
I hope you never get tired of hearing it!
And I hope it leads you to say thank you Jesus!
You should praise The Lord for who He is! Look with me at verse 1,
So what is in a name?
What does it mean praise His Holy Name?
Holy means set apart right?
That means there is no other name that even comes close to God’s name amen?
What is in a name?
Our name is our reputation.
It is who we are.
We should praise the Lord for who he is, for His divine attributes.
Look with me at verse 8,
First, God is compassionate.
Verse 13,” As a father has
compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.”
According to Merriam-Webster online dictionary, “compassion is a feeling of
wanting to help someone who is sick, hungry, or in trouble.
Think about that for a
minute.
If you have children you know exactly what David is saying in verse 13,” As
a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who
fear him.”
As a parent, when you see you child in pain, hungry, sick, or injured, you
want nothing more than to relieve that suffering.
I remember when my son
Matthias was born, several test kept coming back abnormal.
In the first week of his life we had to take him to the hospital three or four times for blood work.
We had to go for a sonogram and an ekg.
As he laid there crying, I wanted nothing more than to relieve his pain and suffering, but I did not stop them why?
I did not stop the nurses because it was for his long- term benefit.
The doctors had to find out why the tests were coming back abnormal.
Our Father in heaven has way more compassion on us then that.
So as you go through suffering remember that your God loves you and has compassion on you like a father on his children.
He is far more concerned about your eternal suffering than on your earthly suffering.
Which leads to our second attribute, back to verse 8,
God is gracious.
So what is grace?
According to Merriam-Webster, “grace is unmerited divine assistance given humans for their regeneration or sanctification.”
God will punish the wicked, but because He is gracious, He sent His Son.
Remember, grace is unmerited, that is unearned, favor.
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