Psalm 134:1-3

Blessing the Lord is a concept that, quite honestly, sounds foreign to me.  I understand completely the idea of receiving blessing from the Lord, but I feel very inadequate to think that there is some way that I could bless the Lord.  The problem lies in our understanding of blessing.  We tend to equate blessing with providing some need in the life of another.  Since God does not need anything it seems like it would be impossible to bless Him.  However, if we define blessing as speaking highly of as in an act of worship; we can clearly see our ability to bless.  In reality the word “bless” caries both the idea of praising and providing.

WE PRAISE HIS NAME: The call of this Psalm to: “Come, bless the Lord” is a call for all those who love and serve the Lord to raise their voices and their hands before the Lord and worship Him.  This act of praising the Lord does not provide God with anything that is lacking in His life, but it does delight His heart.  We were created for the purpose of worship.  All that we do is to be offered as an act of worship to the Lord.  We do not need to gather in buildings to be able to worship; all of our lives should be seen as an act of worship to the Lord.  If what we are doing cannot be considered worship we ought not to be doing that.  Our work, recreation, relationships, participation in church and everything in between ought to be focused on worship.  However, praising the name of the Lord with our mouths needs to be a regular part of our worship.  His greatness should ever be on our lips.


HE PROVIDES OUR NEEDS: When we bless God, He blesses us.  We are greatly blessed by blessing.  One of our greatest delights is a sense of fulfillment or accomplishment.  One of our greatest sorrows is a sense of uselessness or futility.  Since God made us to be worshipers; it only stands to reason that we would be most fulfilled in our lives through worship.  In that sense we can see worship as being its own reward.  God is our Provider; He has made the heavens and the earth and all that is in them.  All of creation belongs to Him and He uses His creation to meet all of our needs.  We bless the Lord, not so we can “get rich.”  We bless the Lord because we recognize that in Him we are already rich.  He takes great delight in us when we delighted with Him.

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