The Committed Praise and Bless Continually

UV 3352/10000 The Committed Praise and Bless Continually

I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

Psalm 34 v 1

In this uni-verse, David makes a commitment to the Lord that he would bless and praise the Lord at all times and continually. At all times implies both in good times and bad times. David at this juncture when he wrote this Psalm was going through a period of adversity. In order to avoid any hostile actions against him, he was pretending to be insane in the court of Achish, king of Gath who drove him away. Faith enables a person to improve what I read about only yesterday, our adversity quotient. It will enable us to endure times of difficulty and torment with the same level of faith and hope we have in good times. David committed to bless the Lord for all the ups and downs of his life.

We are not just fair weather friends of the Lord but we stand with Him at all times even as He stands with us. He is in fact, nearest to the heart broken and crushed in spirit. It is a true saying that in order to save our souls, He sometimes needs to crush our spirit. Many are the troubles, David rightly concludes, of the righteous or those who trust Jesus but the Lord delivers us from them all. We can take refuge in Him and be sure that He will rescue us. He will deliver us from our worst fears by sending His angels or ministering spirits to surround us. Hence, we should bless the Lord from deep within our souls, from all that is within us.

The Lord always meets us at our point of need. He satisfies our heart’s desires. It is almost as if we can experience Him with our six senses and taste His goodness. Our response to such great goodness is to offer praise continually from our mouths and bless Him with our inner being. Only such adoration or worship is true and acceptable to the Lord where there is an agreement between our hearts and our mouths about His goodness, His mercy, His faithfulness, His love and wisdom. Intermittent praise keeps our mouth from uttering words of deceit or sarcasm. When our hearts and mouths are pre-occupied with the Lord, we leave no scope for evil to take root or rule in our lives.