Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Seeking God's Work

Psalms 111:2 KJV
The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
This Psalm highlights the works of the Lord as objects of a reason for praising the LORD.

Those works are said to be
Great
Honorable and Glorious
Wonderful
Powerful
Verity and Judgment


Verse 2 says these works are "sought out of all them that have pleasure therein."

Those who would have pleasure in the works of the Lord seek them
In the sense of studying those works of the past
All that God has done and is recorded especially in the Bible but also throughout history become the source of study for the one who finds pleasure in them. We want to know
What God has done
Why God has done it
How God has done it and
In what ways we might apply the lessons in our own lives


In the sense that we look to see what God is doing in our own dayIt is easy to get so busy in life that we fail to observe the hand of God at work around us. Too often we misinterpret the events of our day and God's part in them.
We ascribe to Satan what God may have done or
To God what Satan has done.
We see the works of a man and say that God has done it


Or we do not acknowledge God's pat in anything we do. We claim credit for things that could not have happened had it not been for God.

The one who has pleasure in the works of God strives to see what God is doing around him.

In the sense that we long for and beseech God to work in our lives.
The one who takes pleasure in the works of God realizes that he can never be fully blessed unless God is working in him and through him. He desires not to do what he can and then feign humility in giving credit to God. He longs to see what only God can do.

And when we see God work and we have no explanation other than God has done it. We have great reason to praise the Lord.

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