Monday Meditation: Be Praised, Adored, And Thanked Forever

 

"For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, 
And at the last He will take His stand upon the earth."
(Job 19:25)

Hope on the Horizon

Greg Olsen
American artist
Image courtesy/Pixels

"Therefore David blessed the Lord before all the assembly and said,
Be praised, adored, and thanked, O Lord, the God of Israel, forever and ever.

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory
and the majesty,  for all that is in the heavens and the earth is Yours:
Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and Yours it is to be exalted as Head over all.

Both riches and honor come from You, and You reign over all. In Your hands are
 power and might; in Your hands it is to make great and to give strength to all.

Now therefore, our God, we thank You and praise Your glorious name 
 and these attributes which that name denotes.

But who am I, and what are my people, that we should retain strength and be able
to offer thus so willingly?  For all things come from You, and out of Your own
hand we have given You.

For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days
on earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope or expectation of remaining.

O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build You a house for
Your holy Name and the token of Your presence comes from Your hand
and is all Your own.

I know also, my God, that You try the heart and delight in uprightness.
In the uprightness of my heart I have feely offered all these things.
And now I have seen with joy Your people who are present here
offer voluntarily and freely to You.

O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever
such purposes and thoughts in the minds of Your people, and direct
and establish their hearts towards You.

And give to Solomon, my son, a blameless heart to keep Your commandments,
testimonies, and statutes, and to do all that is necessary to build the palace
for You for which I have made provision.

And David said to all the assembly, Now adore, praise and thank the Lord your God!
And all the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers, and bowed down
and did obeisance to the Lord and to the king as his earthly representative.
(1 Chronicles 29: 10-20)

"Oh, the depths of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! 
How unfathomable are His judgments! And how mysterious are His ways!

For who has known the mind of the Lord and who has understood His thoughts,
and who has ever been His counselor?

Or who has first given God anything that he might be paid back, or
that he could claim as recompense?

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. For all things
originate with Him and come from Him; all things live through Him,
and all things center in and tend to consummate and to end in Him.
To Him be the glory forever.  Amen!
(Romans 11:33-36)

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last,
the Before all and End of all."
(Revelation 22:13)