Those who know God cannot help but praise Him!
Psalm 40:4-5
4 Blessed is the man
who makes
the Lord his
trust,
who does not turn to the
proud,
to those who go
astray after a lie!
5 You have
multiplied, O Lord my God,
your wondrous deeds
and your thoughts toward us;
none can compare with you!
I will proclaim and tell
of them,
yet they are more
than can be told.
John 6:68-69
Simon Peter answered him,
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal
life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the
Holy One of God.”
To know the living God and
know He is our Lord and Savior makes us truly blessed! This world is a hard
place to go through, for sin has ruined all. We cannot trust ourselves, we
cannot trust the world. Apart from God, we cannot know what is really true and
valuable. We will always be prone to follows lies. Our hearts are deceitful and
our minds are confused, when left to ourselves.
Those who have trusted the
Lord know that this faith is a wonderful gift that God has given them. It is
God Who revealed Himself through the Scriptures and Who sent His Son to live
among men with the distinct purpose of dying for the sins of those who believe
in Him, and rose again victorious, so we could have eternal hope, eternal life.
Wise men put their trust
in the Lord. These truths have been so bright and so wonderfully displayed for
me lately. As my mother is coming to a close of her journey in life, as her
body is weakening and her breathing gets harder and harder, her serenity
displays the amazing truth of how blessed those are, who have put their trust
in God. Watching my father deal with this difficult reality of seeing his life
partner fade slowly toward her eternal life with God with such peace and assurance
because of his trust in God is a resounding testimony to me of God’s grace.
How unwise and arrogant do
we become when we lend our ear to lies, when we let people divert us from
trusting and following our God and Savior. David was resolved, he had set his
foot on the rock, he was trusting God.
When we stop and reflect,
we will also see how God has shown His wonderful works towards us. His actions
are the result of His thoughts and eternal, faithful love toward us. He loved
His own from eternity past, and will never stop loving for ever. Every one of
His actions, everything that has happened to us, was part of His eternal plan
to conform us to the image of His Son. He has perfectly loved His Son forever
and wants us to be like Him.
Psalm 84:11
For the Lord God
is a sun and shield;
the Lord bestows
favor and honor.
No good thing does he
withhold
from those who walk
uprightly.
He is the one Who causes
us to love Him and gives us the strength to walk in His ways. He works in us
and provides all that is good and useful for us. We are so blessed. Serving Him
should be our only response; telling others of our Lord, like David in this
psalm, should be our only endeavor.
In yesterday’s mail, I
received a precious book. The title is: “What am I useful for if I don’t Serve?”
When my mother received the news that she had a few months to live, she decided
to write a book about serving the Lord with faithfulness. At 89, after a life
spent serving the Lord with my father, what a blessed way to use her last
strength left. There is wonderful verse written by the Apostle Paul to the
Thessalonians on the back cover.
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10
…and how you turned
to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait
for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who
delivers us from the wrath to come.
David, although we know
his sins, had committed to serve his Lord. We have the examples of many who
have been faithful in serving God, and their lives are filled with reasons to
praise God. All our lives are overwhelmed by the constant grace of God.
Every thing we have, every
breath we take, every sin forgiven, every circumstance we have encountered,
every time we have been protected from dangers known and unknown, every time we
have received a kind act, every time we have had food to eat, everything is the
display of God’s benevolent hand upon us. Many live unaware or rebelling
against the God of the Bible; they are truly miserable, fighting for
significance in a lost world. Reality is that no one can be compared to our
God.
I have been blessed: blessed
by the love of God and his wonderful works that cannot be numbered! God has
shown me His grace through my parents, as their lives shine with the faith and
hope that display what it means to know and trust their Lord and Savior.
May our lives shine bright
because of our God! Those who know God cannot help but praise Him!
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