Psalm 135
Last week 2 young men entered a church and murdered the priest, one of the battle cries common among Islamic fundamentalist terrorists is "Allah Akhbar" (God is great) Sorry If I spelled that wrong, but I sure as heck am not about to google it!
God is indeed great, but we believe that God is also good and his will is for everybody to love, honour and worship him and to recognise that God loves all of his people.
The Psalm starts with
Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good, sing praise to his name for that is pleasant.
I know that the LORD is great, that our LORD is greater than all gods.
The LORD does whatever pleases him in the heavens and on the earth
In the seas and all their depths
He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth, he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
The Psalm talks about God choosing Jacob, and that God struck down the Egyptians and the kings of the promised land - these are kind of hard to comprehend in these days.
Your ma,, LORD endures forever, your renown, LORD, through all generations.
For the LORD will have compassion on his servants.
We like to think these days that we don't worship man made idols, described in the Psalm
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands.
They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see.
They have ears but cannot hear, nor is their breath in their mouths.
Those who make them will become like them, and so will all who trust in them.
There are many things that we trust in, hope in, invest in, that just don't deliver. God help us to recognise these for what they are - idols.
The Psalm ends with the instruction Praise the LORD.
Last week 2 young men entered a church and murdered the priest, one of the battle cries common among Islamic fundamentalist terrorists is "Allah Akhbar" (God is great) Sorry If I spelled that wrong, but I sure as heck am not about to google it!
God is indeed great, but we believe that God is also good and his will is for everybody to love, honour and worship him and to recognise that God loves all of his people.
The Psalm starts with
Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good, sing praise to his name for that is pleasant.
I know that the LORD is great, that our LORD is greater than all gods.
The LORD does whatever pleases him in the heavens and on the earth
In the seas and all their depths
He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth, he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
The Psalm talks about God choosing Jacob, and that God struck down the Egyptians and the kings of the promised land - these are kind of hard to comprehend in these days.
Your ma,, LORD endures forever, your renown, LORD, through all generations.
For the LORD will have compassion on his servants.
We like to think these days that we don't worship man made idols, described in the Psalm
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands.
They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see.
They have ears but cannot hear, nor is their breath in their mouths.
Those who make them will become like them, and so will all who trust in them.
There are many things that we trust in, hope in, invest in, that just don't deliver. God help us to recognise these for what they are - idols.
The Psalm ends with the instruction Praise the LORD.
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