I Sing For Joy
What Your Hands Have Done
It is good to praise
the LORD and make music to your name, O Most High, proclaiming your love in the
morning and your faithfulness at night, to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and
the melody of the harp.
For you make me glad
by your deeds, LORD; I sing for joy at what your hands have done. How great are
your works, LORD, how profound your thoughts! Senseless people do not know, fools
do not understand, that though the wicked spring up like grass and all
evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
But you, LORD, are
forever exalted.
For surely your
enemies, LORD, surely your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.
You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; fine oils have been poured on
me. My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries; my ears have heard the rout
of my wicked foes.
The righteous will
flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in
the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will
still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green, proclaiming, “The
LORD is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.”
Psalm
92:1-15
It is good to sing
praises to God, because it does our soul a world of good to turn from anxious
thoughts and to fill our days with prayerful praise.
It is better to rise each morning singing praises and songs of thanksgiving.
That kind of praise makes us feel glad to be alive.
We are all planted in
the house of the Lord. Palms are symbols of towering beauty and cedars are of
unbending strength. These are characteristics of those who have God with them.
Do you think your
usefulness to God is over? Continue in God’s Word, rooted and grounded in
Christ, drinking in His love and faithfulness. Then, no matter your age, you
will bear fruit and can be fresh and flourish.
Praise
comes naturally when you count your blessings.
Our Daily Bread –