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Saturday 1 August 2015

Bless the Lord. [Psalm 134 ]

Psalm 134 commences by saying ,/Behold ,bless ye the Lord/,likewise in verse 2 we have the words ,/bless the Lord/.The Psalm ends with a prayer that God would bless ,the question is what does it mean to bless the Lord?.
It is Kidner writes,/To bless God is to acknowledge gratefully what He is,but to bless man,God must make of him what he is not,and  give him what he has not/.That acknowledging God, is I believe an act of praising
Him. It is Plummer who wrote,/Because our mercies are ever new,our praises should be continual.Now here is the challenge for all of us,to praise
God continually,even in the night seasons of our soul.Spurgeon wrote,/Let
others flatter their fellows,or bless their stars,or praise themselves;as for us,we will bless Jehovah ,from whom all blessings flow/.
                                      A  prayer.
                    Fill Thou my life,O Lord my God,
                     In every part with praise,
                     That my whole being may proclaim
                    Thy being and Thy ways.
                     Not for the lip of praise alone,
                    I  ask, but for a life made up,
                      Of praise in every part.
                            Amen.
                [Words by H. Bonar]

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