Unending Praise for God Our Savior

April 5, 2016

Unending Praise for God Our Savior

Let the faithful rejoice that he honors them.

    Let them sing for joy as they lie on their beds.

Psalm 149:5

This verse from Psalm 149 is a reminder to me of the importance of personal worship to those seeking the life in Christ as their way of life. We must resist the temptation to rein in our spirit until we gather in corporate worship at our church. We must proactively carve out times each day when we can be fully uninhibited and release our spirit to worship our God with exuberant joy. In our home, we play praise and worship music throughout each day. What a blessing to hear Cheryl joining her voice to the choruses. For me, I have the music playing in my office while I am writing and frequently stop writing to follow my spirit into worship and praise.

I believe these personal worship times prepare us for daily living. In Revelation 19, the Apostle John teaches us that the Christian witness for God in times of persecution is the most powerful witness for God in the world. The faithfulness of God’s people standing firm on the Word of God is crucial to the defeat of the forces of evil. Ultimately, Jesus has the final victory over evil. In Revelation 21, we get a glimpse of what it will be like when the persecution of God’s people has ended. With the ultimate and final defeat of evil, God’s people will be completely unrestrained in worship. Worship will not be confined to times and places; worship will be a state of being as God is worshiped through everything that a person does, wherever they may be. Today, we can begin rehearsing for living in the final victory of Christ.

The followers of Christ have been commissioned to speak God’s Word and God’s truth into this present darkness. We remain diligent in our responsibility to honor God as we wait for Christ to come in final victory. One thing these two eras have in common is our unending praise for God our Savior.

Praise the Lord!

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

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