Verse of the day: Psalms 116:1-2 I love the Lord, because He has heard My voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.
There are many reasons to love God. Our greatest reason is simply that He is God. Nonetheless, we love Him only because He loved us first, as we are reminded in 1 John. The psalmist is expressing love because of deliverance of some sort. How much more should we praise God when we are delivered from trouble (regardless of what that might be)? It is truly overwhelming to think that our God, who is greater than all, Creator of all, has time, or even takes time, to answer the prayer(s) of someone like you or me. Like the writer, we ought to always be ready to go before the throne of God, not just to ask Him for something, but to praise Him. So often, we come to God with our shopping list of requests, but spend little time just going before Him to offer up the sacrifice of our tongue, which is praise, and thanksgiving. Praise, and thanksgiving, come easy when we know He has heard us (evidenced by an answered prayer). How much more wonderful is it when we have no evidence that He has heard, or is hearing our prayers, and we come before Him to worship Him with praise and thanksgiving? That is when it is truly sacrificial worship. By faith, we trust that God hears our every prayer, and in faith we wait for an answer. However, let us not wait to see the answer(s) before we begin to worship Him, express (and demonstrate) our love for Him. Let us rejoice in answered prayer, but let us praise Him, thank Him, and worship Him (with our lives, and the way we live), even while we wait to see the answer(s).
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