Saturday, August 24, 2013

"Perpetual Praise" -3

"I will bless the LORD at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth." (Psalms 34:1) Now the thing that makes this a perpetual conversation, if you care to call it that, is the concept of the "mouth", this hole that is placed between our nose and our chin. Odd as that might sound, within the area of "praise", it has more significant meaning than you might tend to think. First of all, God has created us to worship Him; which is in and of itself a form of divine fellowship; we are created to give God glory, and because He created us in His image, He set the design to be glorified. And, just because we can't see what God has done, does not mean that it is not so; for as He has said, "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways"; but in the end, all will be as God created it to be. I wonder how we can seem to forget that as often as we do; it's almost as if we think with our eyes more than with our hearts; you think? When we look at the meaning of the word "mouth" we see a whole variety of applications; some pertain to animate objects, and some are fixed; but the one that really touched my heart was the functional application, which included "To speak, mouth to mouth, without any one between". The reason that this application has so much impact upon our hearts, is because this is the application represented in Romans 8:15, where Paul says, "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." The point of what that represents, is that we know we are His child, therefore, we speak to Him as His child; mouth to mouth, without any one between Him and us, His children. Now we can see the perpetual conversation a little more clearly; because it is not necessarily about the quantity of time that we spend praising God, but more about who it is that we are praising, and who we are in Him; and because that is what it is, it therefore becomes eternal and forever..."For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for and everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." (Isaiah 55:12 & 13)

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