Good Morning,
Psalm 150 is so simple, but it is one of my favorite calls to worship in the Bible. It starts off and does not give us a suggestion, but rather a command: Praise the Lord! The Word says to praise Him for His great deeds. To praise Him for His excellent greatness. And it doesn’t tell us to be quiet about it either. It says to praise Him with trumpets, lutes, harps, tambourine, dance (yes, dance), sounding cymbals, and loud clashing cymbals. Our praise for God should be loud! But maybe my favorite verse is verse 6, where it simply declares, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
I love this, because just imagine for a second that you could write all the reasons God is worthy of your praise. That would be a long list! You could praise Him for salvation, for forgiveness, for His mercy, for His peace, for His joy, for your family, for your job, for your church, for your friends, for the resources He’s given you, and on, and on, and on you could go. Imagine for a second that you could actually get to the end of that list. And you listed off every possible thing that you could praise God for. I love Psalm 150:6 because in just a few seconds you would have something else to praise God for because you have breath. And then just a few seconds longer and you’d have another reason to praise Him. You and I can never run out of reasons to praise the Lord.
So, let’s do what Psalm 150 says today. In our cars, around our homes, in our jobs, in our families, in our schools, let’s do what the Word calls us to do. Let’s praise the Lord. He is worthy of our praise.
Justin Kenley
The Point Pastor
High School Ministry
