The Psalmist Exhorts Men To Praise God

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Alex Szabo
Devotional Assignment 4/10/18
Psalms - Ted Wheeler
Psalm 147
The Psalmist exhorts men to praise God and to care for his church!
We should proclaim God by praising him! It is becoming, pleasant and good to sing these to God. We must consider that we offer our whole-self to the Lord in order for the realization of this consideration. Typically, in our lives we enjoy or desire to see in men, understanding, sympathy, tenderness, compassion and pity. If we consider these characteristics and traits in men when they are considered essentially imperfect, yet we are encouraged to worship them when we see them in God, perfect and boundless. The effective message from the psalmist is to see power, and understanding and mostly, the tenderness

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