Tag: God is Prasied for His WORKS!! - Psalm 111-113

Psalms 111:2-7

Great are the WORK of the Lord,

studied by all who delight in them.

Full of splendor and majesty is his WORK,

and his righteousness endures forever.

He has caused his wondrous WORKS to be remembered;

the Lord is gracious and merciful.

He provides food for those who fear him;

he remembers his covenant forever.

He has shown his people the power of his WORKS,

in giving them the inheritance of the nations.

The WORKS of his hands are faithful and just;

all his precepts are trustworthy;

Tag:  God is Praised for His WORKS!!

The capitalization of the word WORK in the above passages is done to highlight the subject of these verses.  (All but two of them are the same Hebrew word.)  The writer of the Psalm is telling us that the proper response to Gods works is to burst out in praise.  When we see something that God has done we burst out in praise.   That is not a hard concept to understand.   If we are watching a sport and we see something that an athlete does that adds to the score of the game or match or event, we burst out in applause.   That is what the writer is telling us.  God's work is "full of splendor and majesty".    God has done the work and "caused His wondrous works to be remembered."   God has shown us the "power of his works."   His works are "faithful and just."   The beginning of this Psalm begins with the phrase: Praise the Lord.  That is actually, "hallelujah" in the Hebrew.   It means we are to boast in the Lord.   We don't, however, break out in hallelujah unless we study and notice the works of the Lord.  We can get so wrapped up in our own lives and this world that we fail to see the sovereign acts of God all around us.   This Psalm is the proverbial "stop and smell the roses" type of song.  The writer wants us to make sure we don't get so caught up on the hustle and bustle of our own lives that we forget to study (learn and rehearse) the works of God and then break out in praise over them.   God's works are not like man's works.  We seem to praise man's works and miss and forget the powerful and awesome works of God.