Daily Devotional

We are invited to come before the Lord with thanksgiving, and we are given three reasons why we should.
“God is the best, High King over all the gods (verse 3).” “Great” is a reference to weight. The psalmist is saying that God is heavy, God is bigger than anything else—bigger than our problems, our situations and our enemies. God rules over all the gods. Regardless of the nature of the opposition, God is bigger than anything that comes against us.
God is Great because of His creative power: “He made Ocean—He owns it! His hands sculpted Earth (verse 5)!” But not only can God create, but God can re-create. The same God who created the heavens and the earth can re-create us. Paul says, in II Corinthians 5:17, “When anyone lives in Christ, the new creation has come. The old is gone! The new is here!”
God is our benevolent Owner. The Psalmist says, in verse 7, that, “Oh yes, he’s our God, and we’re the people He pastures, the flock He feeds.” We’re God’s precious possession. God is not just great, but God is good. And good is better than great. Great refers to quantity, but good refers to quality, to worth, to depth.
We can praise God for restoration. Sin severed the God-man relationship, but through Christ, we have a means of reconciliation. I John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, He will forgive our sins. He will forgive every wrong thing we have done. He will make us pure.”
God deserves our thanks. The Psalmist invites us to, “Come, let us worship: bow before Him, on your knees before the Lord who made us (verse 6)!” Worship transcends conditions. Praise is about what God has done, and certainly we have much to praise God for. But worship is about who He is. And that tells us that we should give thanks to God under all conditions—always and for all things. “Always” means all the time; “all things” means in good times as well as bad.

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