THE LORD IS A GREAT KING ABOVE ALL GODS:
Why should we praise God more? Because He is the King of all the earth. Singing is a natural part of our evangelism. We teach others through our songs: “O Lord My God, when I in awesome wonder consider the worlds thy hands have made, I see the stars. I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed. And my soul sings, ‘My God how great thou art!”
God is the King above all gods. He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth. When we praise God as we should, and we give credit to Him as we should, then we must share the message of Christ, the Gospel, with others.
“Of one the Lord has made the race, through one has come the fall. Where sin has gone must go His grace, the Gospel is for all.” Our songs help remind us that we need to be sharing the gospel with others. There are some songs – spiritual songs of course – that I hear and I think about the time I made the decision to go to the mission field. There were songs we sang in chapel either at Freed-Hardeman or at Faulkner University and those songs created a spirit within me that urged me to share the gospel with others.
“If you can’t pray like Peter, if you cannot preach like Paul, go home and tell your neighbor that He died to save us all. There is balm in Gilead (a phrase taken from Jeremiah 8:22) to make the wounded whole; there is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul.”
To have the “good” life, you should praise God more so that you will be more or think more evangelistically. It is easy to get tied up in the mundane responsibilities of day-to-day life and forget that the souls around us are lost and dying in sin and they need the Christian with the love of Jesus in their heart to share the gospel of Jesus from their hearts.
Finally, back to Psalm 95…
WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF HIS PASTURE:
“For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.”
We know that the Hebrew writer wrote down his sermon – 13:22 – and I wonder if Hebrews 3:7-11 was a sermon based on his congregation singing Psalm 95 one day during worship. The Hebrew writer cautions Christians about getting apathetic in their Christian walk and then being influenced to leave Christ for something far inferior.
“We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.”
We are God’s people, the sheep of His pasture and our singing should unite us together with one another. We teach and encourage each other through our songs, hymns, and spiritual songs. We are reminded that we are one people and we are encouraging each other to get to heaven. One of the purposes of our worship, which we do through our singing as much as any other act of worship, is to “stimulate one another to love and good works” (Heb. 10:25).
Praise God more!
Paul Holland
