Today, I am reading and commenting on Psalms 143-150.

I am going to write about two themes from today’s psalms: learning from God how we should act and praising Him.  The psalmist begins by begging God to forgive his sins because no one can be righteous before God.  He transitions directly from that into begging God to show him, teach him, what he should do, the path he should choose to follow.  In doing so, the psalmist speaks of meditating on the things which God has done and listening to previous generations telling us of God’s mighty acts.  The best part of the latter is the way in which the psalmist tells us to listen to what previous generations tell us about God and His works, while telling us to tell future generations about those same works.  Speaking about the splendor of God’s actions while meditating on them and thinking about what they mean for us.  Our meditation on God’s works should lead us to praise Him.  Further, the psalmist relates how hearing about what God has done should cause us to put our trust in Him, and not put our trust in human beings, no matter how much power those humans appear to command.  The psalmist reminds us that we should not seek power ourselves because God does not take pleasure or delight in the power of His people, He does not take delight in our strength.  God delights in those who put their hope and trust in Him, who do as He commands.  We should strive to praise God and bring glory to His Name because we exist because of Him, He created us.  Everything should praise the Lord and all that exists should cause us to praise Him.  That last bit, like so much else in this passage, has two parts.  When we look at everything that exists its very existence should cause us to see the glory of God, but also everything that can act should act in a way which directs glory to God.

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