Monday, August 23, 2010

Full of Praise

Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with they honour all the day. Psalm 71:8

How often do we verbally praise God? I don't mean a ritualistic, unmeant, habitual prayer rattled off in 20 seconds before a meal or an idiomatic "Praise the Lord" when some minor crisis like having to talk to the crazy cat lady neighor is avoided. I mean how often do we genuinely thank, laud or give credit to God out loud...or at all? I'm afraid if we took a moment to think about it, we actually WOULD have to think about it just to think of the last time it happened. Which is very sad. God is so undeniably and unmeasurably good to us, yet we almost never take the effort to even mention it. Shame on us. We shouldn't be able to praise Him enough! Maybe we need to pray this psalmists prayer every day.

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