I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Psalms 108-116.

    Since most of the psalms are about praising God, it should come as no surprise that praising God is the primary subject of today’s passage. When we have confidence in God it permits us, it more than permits us, it inspires us to praise God with all of our heart. It may inspire us to wake up at dawn to praise Him…oh wait, the psalmist says that he will wake the dawn. Think about what he is saying. Ordinarily, we think of, possibly, waking with the dawn to get something done which we strongly desire to do. However, the psalmist does not say that he wakes with the dawn to praise God. He says that he is so inspired to praise God that he gets up before the dawn and wakes the dawn up.

    The psalmist tells us of one of the great mysteries of this world which God has created. Fear of the Lord inspires us to act according to God’s will. Acting according to God’s will brings us great joy. That great joy causes us to praise God with our whole being. Praising God allows us to experience God’s love for us. When we experience God’s love we cease to fear Him. I have one final point from today’s psalms which I want to make. The psalmist tells us that the glory for all that happens around us belongs to God. We desire to be glorified and yet when we learn to credit God, and to get others to credit God, for any good which might incidentally result from our actions the joy we experience is greater than that which we might receive from public adulation. And it is genuinely true that God deserves credit for any good which I do. It was He who set up my life experiences so that I do whatever limited good which I do. If you are blessed by anything I say, or write, or do, give credit to God and praise Him, because it is the many wonderful gifts which He has given me which caused me to take whatever action you may think praiseworthy (my screw ups however, are my own).