How Is Your Praise Life

Question: do you have a heart of praise?  Do you praise the Lord only for the good things or for all things?  If the Word says this, and it does, in Romans 8:28, “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose,”  should we not have a heart of praise?  Did you notice it says all things work together for good; so shouldn’t we praise the Lord for all things?  Does this mean in all circumstances and situations, in good health or in bad health?  I think it does.  

Then Paul goes on and says this in verses 29-30, “For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.”

God’s purpose is to make each of us like Jesus so that we will become what we were created to be, so that we will resemble Jesus in our lives.  If we are to be conformed and transformed into His image more and more, we need to be studying the Word, emulating His life, being filled with the Spirit and also be the salt and light we have been called to be so that we can accomplish His work in this world.  

People believe different things about what predestined means.  Some believe that God chose certain people before the beginning of time to be His, while others believe that because God knew who would receive Him and who wouldn’t, He chose the ones that would.  One of the things we can know for sure is that God knew us before this present life; we were not an afterthought.  

If you are born-again, you can rejoice in knowing that God has always known you, always loved you and has always had a plan for your life.  His plan is this in Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”  Praise the Lord!!  He will guide, lead, protect and provide for us.

Think of this, we can never be separated from God’s love.  Paul assured the Roman believers of this and I believe these words were meant for all of us that are in the body of Christ, he said this in verses 31-39 of chapter 8, “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:

‘For Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

It says this in the footnotes in my Bible about this, “The book of Romans is more than a theological explanation of God’s redeeming grace- it is a letter of comfort and confidence addressed to you.”  If all these things are true, and they are, then how can we not have a heart of praise and thanksgiving for the Lord?  

I hope this Tidbit will be an encouragement to all that read it.  There is nothing more important than your relationship with the Lord and you will never be able to thank Him and praise Him enough for it.  If you haven’t yet, take some time out and thank and praise Him today for He is worthy.  Something to think about; God bless and have a super day!