JMD Devotional 233 Psalm 145:1-7 Geysers of Praise

I WILL extol You, my God, O King; and I will bless Your name forever and ever [with grateful, affectionate praise]. Every day [with its new reasons] will I bless You [affectionately and gratefully praise You]; yes, I will praise Your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord and highly to be praised; and His greatness is [so vast and deep as to be] unsearchable. One generation shall laud Your works to another and shall declare Your mighty acts. On the glorious splendor of Your majesty and on Your wondrous works I will meditate. Men shall speak of the might of Your tremendous and terrible acts, and I will declare Your greatness. They shall pour forth [like a fountain] the fame of Your great and abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of Your rightness and justice.

What kind of blindness keeps our eyes from seeing the glorious works of God in our lives and all around us? When our hearts are dry and bitter, when all we see is grey, when we think we have nothing to be joyful about, we are in a sad state indeed. Because God does not sleep or slumber; Jesus told the Pharisees that He constantly works because His Father is constantly working. Sin has blinded our eyes to God’s glorious fountains of grace all around us as we die of thirst. We dig broken cisterns when a true fountain is within an arm’s reach. In the tsunami of 2005, a baby hippo was orphaned when its mother was washed out to sea. It bonded with a giant tortoise and the two have been inseparable for a year. God had pity on the orphaned animal; how much more pity has He had on you that you did not recognize? He has blessed us, He has blessed us, He has blessed us: pray for eyes to see His works in every day things. The miraculous surrounds us!
There should be geysers of praise to compliment the fountains of blessings.

Dear God,
Give us eyes to see Your blessings and works that we may praise Your glorious name. Forgive our sins whether they are willful, latent or inherited---remove the blockage that stops up our thanksgiving and gratefulness! Wash away our iniquity and anoint our vocal chords to speak of what is positive, good and true about You. You are worthy of all praise; we (I) am (are) recipients of every good thing and they are all from Your hand. Blessed be the Lord God Almighty.
Amen

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