Praise the Lord

Today, I want to let God’s Word speak for itself. There is no way I could ever say this any better.  May we truly live what this Psalm encourages us to, and trust everything is tells us about God.  I encourage you to read this slowly, thinking about how each line applies to your own life, or the life of someone around you.  We often forget when we read Scripture that it is God’s Living Word that continues to speak peace and truth into our lives all of these thousands of years later.

Psalm 146

1 Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, my soul.

2 I will praise the Lord all my life;
    I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
3 Do not put your trust in princes,
    in human beings, who cannot save.
4 When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
    on that very day their plans come to nothing.
5 Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
    whose hope is in the Lord their God.

6 He is the Maker of heaven and earth,
    the sea, and everything in them—
    he remains faithful forever.
7 He upholds the cause of the oppressed
    and gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets prisoners free,
8     the Lord gives sight to the blind,
the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
    the Lord loves the righteous.
9 The Lord watches over the foreigner
    and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
    but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

10 The Lord reigns forever,
    your God, O Zion, for all generations.

Praise the Lord

God bless, Rev. Liz Arakelian, www.LivingHopeEC.org