Greatness of God, Part 5

Those of you who read this blog on a daily basis can probably understand by now that these thoughts about the "Greatness of God" are important to me. It seems that my vein of thought and the inspiration of my heart is open to this reminder concerning God. I also feel the encouragement from the Spirit to share some of these thoughts with you. Each of us need to see and remember the "Greatness of God" in some area of our lives. Each of us are facing our own set of unique and in some cases daunting challenges from what we may call the "normal" process of life. Those challenges don't even include those moments in which we are under a spiritual attack from the powers of darkness. But even during those moments we can turn our attention to the "Greatness of God" and realize that He still has "all power and all authority in heaven and in earth."

Don't you believe that it is time for the modern day church to lift our voices in authentic and sincere praise to the Lord God Almighty? The foul spirits of hell are doing their best to desecrate and destroy the name of God and it is up to the church to do our best to honor, exalt, magnify and exalt the name of God. Will you join me in that wonderful opportunity today? I read a passage of scripture earlier this morning and some comments from C.S. Lewis that spoke to my heart concerning MY NEED to express praise to God. I would like to share those comments with you this morning. 

"Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!"  (Psalm 67:3) 

Why does God teach us to praise Him?

C.S. Lewis:

Just as men spontaneously praise whatever they value, so they spontaneously urge us to join them in praising it: “Isn’t she lovely? Wasn’t it glorious? Don’t you think that was magnificent?”

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about. My whole, more general, difficulty about the praise of God depended on my absurdly denying to us, as regards the supremely Valuable, what we delight to do, what indeed we can’t help doing, about everything else we value.

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

There is the solution! We praise what we enjoy because the delight is incomplete until it is expressed in praise. If we were not allowed to speak of what we value and celebrate what we love and praise what we admire, our joy could not be full.

Will you join me in offering your praise to God today because He is valuable to you?