Psalm 30:1-12

God is merciful.  The Lord blesses us in so many ways and at so many different times in our lives.  We do not deserve any of these blessings; in fact, we deserve just the opposite of these blessings.  When He found us we were in despair and headed for an eternity in hell because of our sin.  Through His mercy He grants us forgiveness and freedom from our sin that we might enjoy lives in fellowship with Him.  This reality should have a profound impact on our lives and the attitude with which we approach life.  We all have a job to do.  God has His job and we have ours.  Our lives can be greatly blessed when everyone does their job.

IT IS OUR JOB TO PRAISE THE LORD: We were created for God’s glory.  This was our job before sin came into the world and it continues to be our job since sin came into the world.  Our job has never changed.  God created us so that we might enjoy worshiping and praising Him.  God blesses us in so many ways and those blessings should produce hearts that are thankful.  Any time somebody does something amazing we have the tendency to talk about it with one another.  God is constantly doing the amazing so we should be constantly talking about Him.  When we are thankful to Him and are faithful to talk about Him to others; He is glorified by our praise and we are doing our Job.  However it is important to know that we can only do our job because He has already been faithful to do His job.


IT IS GOD’S JOB TO TRANSFORM US: God is in the business of changing lives.  It is what He does over and over again.  He looks upon humanity that is lost in sin and headed towards destruction and He has great love and mercy upon us.  When we call out to Him for help and are simply willing to believe that we are hopeless apart from Him and simply trust Him to forgive and free us; He makes amazing transformations in our lives.  He heals of our sin and the consequences of our sin.  This is both spiritual and physical healing.  He changed our tears of sorrow into tears of joy.  We are changed from being rejected by Him to rejoicing in Him.  We were unstable and without hope for the future but He has given us a firm standing and a glorious future.  We were rebellious and headed for certain death but He changes our hearts so that we worship Him in obedience and receive eternal life from Him.  All of us to have experience these transformations from God should just naturally be filled with praises for God. 

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