Praise the Lord ...

Friday, Jan 31, 2014. For those of us who do not know God, praise seems a pretty useless thing. Why should you praise something or someone, which does not exist? For a non-believer praise is an illusion.

God is to be praised …

But for those, who know the Lord, praise is just the natural reaction to what they have experienced and what they experience right now. God is fantastic, he is good, he is amazing, he is breathtaking! God is to be praised!!

When you are in love with someone, you will probably tell him words of love, words of praise, words of support and attention. When you are exited about something, you will tell your friends and colleagues that it is fantastic and great.

God IS great. His spirit is not an illusion, but an experience of those who live as disciples of Jesus. The Holy Spirit is one of the divine persons, which is present in the whole bible - and in particular present in the New Testament. It is promised to the believers, and believers of all times have experienced the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth, love and humility. When you are humble, and when you believe in Jesus, his spirit will come into your heart and into your mind!

Song of Praise …

1 Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! 2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

The bible gives us many songs of praise. And we are called to write new songs. That happens all the time, and today we have thousands of new songs of praise in many different song books and worship books. There are even so many of these, that even experts of worship cannot know them all any more …

So let us sing with David. Let us sing songs of praise to a fantastic God. I want to tell him and anyone who wants to listen, that God's way is so great, so full of life and hope and peace and purpose, that a universe could be founded on it. And so it happened; and so it will be! Put your trust in the Lord and nothing else! (Roland Potthast) ... more texts