Celebrate

Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts,
         And I will declare Your greatness.
  They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness,
         And shall sing of Your righteousness.
      
The LORD is gracious and full of compassion,
         Slow to anger and great in mercy.

                                                                                     Psalm 145:6-8 (New King James Version)

 

There's a big difference between celebration and worship.  We celebrate holidays and sporting events and birthdays.  Putting too much into time and energy into celebration to the point where it takes away your time and attention from God  of course is not good.  Yet worship is so much deeper than celebration.   Celebration focuses on what someone has done where worship focuses on who God is.  Sometimes when we intend to worship we do not go deeper than celebration.   We miss getting into the throne room of God where we stand in awe of who He is.  It's in worship that our faith is strong for we realize the power and love and mercy of God is very much who He is and not just what He does.    Yet in approaching God to worship Him it would really be a shame to skip the step of celebration.   Celebrating what God has done is exciting and is expressed in the acts of praise we give to Him.   When we see the ways the world celebrates sports and military heroes we need to realize how much more the Lord Jesus is to worthy of celebration.   I do always want to worship my God for who He is.  Even so  I want to celebrate Him for all He has done and is doing.

 

Psalm 103

 ¹Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
 ²Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
 ³Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
 ⁴Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
 ⁵Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
 ⁶The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
 ⁷He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
 ⁸The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
 ⁹He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
 ¹⁰He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
 ¹¹For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
 ¹²As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
 ¹³Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
 ¹⁴For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
 ¹⁵As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
 ¹⁶For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
 ¹⁷But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
 ¹⁸To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

That's a lot of reasons to celebrate the Lord.

 

 

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