Deuteronomy 10:21

 

Deuteronomy 10:21 ^ESV

“He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.”

 

What is your ‘praise’? 

Do you ‘love’ baseball?  Then your praise is probably some pitcher or some squad.

Do you ‘love’ football?  Then your praise is the Indianapolis Colts, if you are wise enough.

Do you ‘love’ TV?  Then your praise is some program or channel.

 

Your praise is whatever you think is ‘best’.  It could be in a relatively small category or larger one in life.  But whatever it is that you ‘love’ you will find a praise: God has made us worshipping creatures.  There will always be someone with money, power, fame, nerve, or genius that you will find to love.  That is how God made us.

 

Very often the Bible tells us things like ‘He is your praise” because that is what you are to aspire to. For example

Psalm 119:14 ^ESV

In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.

I’m guessing that this verse is not true for most of us.  Do you want it to be?  Don’t answer that question too quickly; be honest, ask your heart if you really want to be the kind of person who loves God’s Word as much as you delight in riches.  Most of us know our hearts well enough to say, “I haven’t proven that is true by my attitudes or actions.”

 

Then begin.  Speak verses like these into your heart so that you meditate on them.  You turn them over and over in your heart and you begin to think about them when you have nothing else to think about.  That is when you will start to make them true of you.

 

Praise You Father that You are the greatest Person in the universe.

Praise You Son that You are God with skin on so that I can worship You.

Praise You Spirit that You communicate God to my heart.

 

Making God my praise along with you,

Pastor Greg