Worthy of Praise

Worthy of Praise

Psalm 145:3, “Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.”

            The Christian musician needs to read this verse often.   One does not have to serve Jesus very long until it will become apparent that serving the Lord is not always “hippity hop over the top” as some will try to tell you.  Our loving heavenly father does not promise that everyone who serves Him will always have “health and wealth” but God will always take care of His Children.  Psalm 34:19 reminds us all that, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.”

            When you are going through a difficult time, that is the time when you must remember that you serve a great God who is worthy of all the praise you can give.  The Christian musician is reminded in Psalm 37:39 that he or she will go through hard times, “But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.”   What more could the troubled musician need than the mighty help that comes from YHVH who is the self existent eternal God who is.  Musicians, who are often prone to becoming depressed, must remember that our loving and mighty heavenly Father is a God who is instead of a god who merely was.

            Since God is a great God he is worthy, as this verse states, worthy of great praise.  The word greatly praised (meod 3966 halal 1984) means complete praise or perhaps more accurately superlative praise that gets louder and louder.  So, it appears to me that the Christian should fight of depression with singing God with superlative words praise that get greater and greater as we remember who God is and what he has promised that He will do for his children.