It is all about God

Psalm 145:1-7

 

“I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.   Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever.  Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.  One generation shall commend your works to another and shall declare your mighty acts. On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.  They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and I will declare your greatness. They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.”

 

“It is not about you, it is all about God;” never have truer words been spoken!  Because we live in a culture of it’s all about me, a follower of Christ can easily be molded into a pagan mindset of, I’m special, I need to be recognized, and the list gets longer and longer.  That’s why I put to memory 2 Corinthians 13:5, “Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!”

 

I find a need to take that test often, who or what am I extoling?  Is it all about me and what I’m doing for God or is it about all that God through Jesus is doing and has done?  Extol is what you admire and worship, and there are many people I admire but when examining why, it is because of Christ doing it all for them.  When we grasp that truth, we do begin to extol God.

 

As we understand that our world feeds our fleshly desires to have it all about me, we come to an understanding that as the Psalmist has stated; “His greatness is unsearchable.”  His superiority goes beyond comprehension, and the prophet Isaiah states so in chapter 40:28, “Do you not know? Have you not heard?  The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.  He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.”

 

I often drop the ball when it comes to telling others what God is up to in my life, I hope that my actions are louder than my words, but words are needed.

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice