Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord !

“Let everything that has breath praise the Lord . Praise the Lord!”

Psalm 150 : 6 (New King James Version)


We read in Genesis 2: 7 , “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” Wow ! God’s very breath is life !!

Just close your eyes and breath in and out and you cannot stop from wondering how merciful our God is that He would bless us with life today , with health today to see this day for a purpose which He has ordained before time began !

We read in Psalm 113 : 4-6 , “The LORD is high above all nations, His glory above the heavens. Who is like the LORD our God, who dwells on high, Who humbles Himself to behold The things that are in the heavens and in the earth?” Who is like the Lord ? There is no one !! He is the great I AM !!

We read in Daniel 5: 23 , “And you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.” Here is a little background to this verse. Belshazzar the king made a great feast and he gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem. And he used those consecrated vessels for his lords, his wives, his concubines to drink from them. As they were drinking from them and praising the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone, In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him. Then the king summoned all the astrologers and Chaldeans and soothsayers asking for an interpretation of the writing on the wall. But none of them could read it. Then Daniel was called and He gave the interpretation and the explanation for the same. Belshazzar did not give God the glory. And He defiled the things that were consecrated to His house.

You and I have been consecrated for His glory. The blood of the Jesus Christ was shed on the cross for us. By His blood we were ransomed. We are consecrated vessels to be used for His glory. However what have we turned our lives , our bodies , our minds , out tongues into ???

We read in Mark 9: 47-48, “And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire – where ‘Their worm does not die, And the fire is not quenched.’"

God holds our very breath. Have we glorified Him ??

We were supposed to be dead to sin, condemned to eternal death. But Christ redeemed us !! Praise the Lord !! We now call Him Abba Father ! We now live as heirs in Christ. Oh can you think of anything better than this ??? We are today alive in Christ !! Oh lets shout out praises to His name !! Praise the Lord !

The Bible says in Psalm 103 : 12, “As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.” If we would humble ourselves before Him and repent, He will blot out our transgressions. We who were once dead to sin are now made alive in Christ. For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life !

Are we ready to be alive today ? And being alive in Him let us glorify Him .

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord . Praise the Lord!

God Bless

No comments:

Post a Comment