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Embracing a Heart of Gladness and Praise Towards God
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What should our attitude of heart be towards God? King David has some suggestions for us in Psalm chapter nine, verse two. I will be glad and exult in you. I will sing praise to your name O Most High.
One of the things that strikes me about this verse when I meditate on it is that it begins with the phrase, “I will.”
David makes that choice. He’s made this decision of his heart, his mind, and his will. He is going to be glad. He is going to spend time basking in the name of God. He is going to spend time thinking about him and praising him. He’s going to sing praise to the name of God. And if this is good enough for King David, then it’s certainly good enough for us.
How do we ensure that we are being glad, that we are making ourselves glad and exulting in God? Well, we can reflect on all that we’ve seen him do through scripture and in our lives and in the histories of those who’ve gone before us.
There are many excellent biographies of Christians who’ve loved and served Jesus, and they are super encouraging. And they help us to exult in God. And we can also choose to sing praise to God whether or not we’ve been gifted with a voice that could sell records.
When we’re praising God, we are giving glory to him, which is the whole purpose of us and this universe. We are filling our hearts with truth, our minds with truth. We praise something that has wonderful merits, particularly something that we perceive to be better than us. So we praise God, of course, because he’s so much better than us in every single respect.
And we can praise God corporately, which unites us as Christians across denominations. Every single Christian on the planet should be able to sing the words I praise you, God, you are holy.
So it unites us. It inspires us, and it gives us that power, that praise generates within. It fills us with joy and with boldness. Praise is the fuel of life.
