August 31, 2017
Unending Praise For God Our Savior
Praise the Lord!
Sing to the Lord a new song.
Sing his praises in the
assembly of the faithful.
Psalm 149:1
Psalm 149 is two dimensional, in
that it is encouragement today for our worship of God, and our witness for
Christ to the world. Our sword is not literal; our sword is the sword of the
Spirit, which is the Word of God. (Ephesians 6:17) 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 in 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, and that
leads us to the second dimension.
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.
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
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2017 by Alex M. Knight
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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New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House
Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream,
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