God Is Great Psalm 48:1

1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.



God is indeed great! He has done so much for us and His plans for us are even greater still. God deserves our praises. He deserves our devotion. He deserves our affection. God deserves our all.

Why is it that God is "greatly to be praised?" He does deserve our praise but that is not the reason He wants our praise. God wants our praise so He can bless us even more. He has done so much for us and because of all that He has done we ought to willingly give Him our praise. However, as we give God our praise, He is able to give more of Himself to us. God desires our praise so He can bless us even more.

When we think about praising God it is so easy to see our praise as something that we do for or give to God as an end in and of itself. That is not the case at all. The devotion and praise that we give to God is not something that He delights in because we have given them to Him; His real delight comes when He is able to do even more for us because of our praise and our devotion to Him. We have to remember that it is for this purpose that God created us in the first place. He loves us so much; He wants to shower us with His blessings and His plans for our lives. He wants our lives to be filled to overflowing and the key that unlocks the windows of heaven is our praise to Him and devotion for Him!

God delights in every opportunity we give Him to be God in our lives. That is why we were created. That is why the earth and the entire universe were created. God wants give us His love as He gives us life. Life is the outpouring of His love that is given to us as we stop to praise Him! When we take time to praise Him for all that He has already done for us, we open our lives to more of His blessings, which makes us want to praise Him even more, which allows Him to bless us even more.

How majestic is Your Name O Lord in all the earth for God is indeed great and greatly to be praised!