Charles Stanley Daily Devotional (December 3, 2024) The Foundation of Praise.
Worship is the natural response to knowing and loving the Lord.
Psalms 40:8-10 - I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart." 9 I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation; Behold, I will not restrain my lips, O LORD, You know. 10 I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.
Throughout the Psalms, David spoke about God’s specific attributes and actions. This collection of songs and poems can be read as a biography of God—one that relies on the language of praise and adoration to tell His story.
Learning about the other person’s character is the basis for genuine love. And since our ability to worship God grows out of our love for Him, that means the true root of praise is knowledge. This is why God instilled in every believer a longing to know more of Him. We satisfy that desire by spending time with the Lord and observing how He works to meet our needs and provide blessings. Discovering each new facet of His character deepens our understanding of Him and our awareness of why He’s so worthy of our praise.
As believers, we all have a “biography” of the Lord to share (Psalm 66:16 - Come and hear, all who fear God, And I will tell of what He has done for my soul). It’s a story of accumulated praise—not only for the ways He has intervened in chaos, comforted in tragedy, and blessed abundantly but also for the lessons we’ve learned in the process. We should share our adoration of Him with the world so others might come to know, love, and praise the Savior.
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