PSALM 103 VERSE 1 - "MORE THAN 10000 REASONS"

Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy Name! (Psalm 103:1)
We know from the Westminster Confession of our Faith that the  "Chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever". This definition of one of our primary charges as Christians comes out of these two following verses:

1 Corinthians 10:31.Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for God's glory.

Romans 11:36. For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen. 

The Puritans were some of the greatest Christian thinkers who ever lived and their writings and exhortations set a standard for understanding the Bible which few in the public arena attain to, in these final days. One of them was Thomas Watson who wrote about what "glorifying God" really means. Watson writes "To glorify God is to set God highest in our thoughts, and, to have a venerable esteem of him. Psalm 92:8. "Thou, Lord, art most high for evermore." Psalm 97:9, "Thou art exalted far above all gods." There is in God all that may draw forth both wonder and delight; there is a constellation of all beauties; he is prima causa [the first cause], the original and spring-head of being, who sheds a glory upon the creature."

The same God we are meant to, should be and will continue to Glorify, as described by Watson, is the same God we must "Bless"!  You and I glorify that which we admire, adore, admit to worshiping and are full of affection towards. We do so because the object of this amazing love is WORTHY...and more of this adoration. Such an intense and emotional love ought to be first and foremost dedicated to the only and God - Yahweh - Who art in Heaven.

We glorify and BLESS, praise, thank, give our best to the Lord in spirit and in truth.  We do so not half-heartedly but with every fiber of our spiritual and physical being. The greatest commandment is to Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, body and soul. That means every fiber of our being, every level of the multi-floor building which is our humanity, has to be in sync with the Great God of the Universe. Our redeemed spirit and the Holy Spirit should be so integrated in sanctification that would inner-self sings out His praises!

Everything inside of us; everything around us; everything we say and believe we are should not run off on our own. Instead, the essence of who we are have to understand the God of the Bible, His many wonderful Attributes, should speak of God, with absolutely no daylight between us. It should be said of us, when whenever we encounter someone and depart after speaking with them, that it can be said of us that "we have been with Jesus". This has to be our waking song and the praise from our souls, all day long. Amen

WHY WE BLESS THE LORD, PART 2

Today, we need to key in on one major fact about God - and this should be a HUGE reason to Bless the Lord! In fact, if we don't bless Him big time about this, we don't deserve anything else.

There is so much that can be said about each of these verses from Psalm 103. However when we look at ourselves, both as individuals and as a people, we never see the way God sees. 
His Ways are not our ways and His Eyes are definitely different from ours!
He sees through the Eyes of Holiness. We see through the eyes of the flesh.
He sees through the Eyes of Righteousness. We see through the eyes of self- righteousness.
He sees through to the very core of our soul. We see only the man in the mirror.
He sees and knows all our short comings. We see ourselves as "not so bad".....not so bad. But is that good enough?

Of course it is not good enough...in fact, that kind of philosophy is called "religion" and it is the same evil that has been perpetrated against God since Nimrod built the Tower of Babel and created every false and evil thing, only a few hundred years after God destroyed the earth with the Great Flood - for the same reason!

So unless we are truly blinded, as most people are, we need to recognize this Truth - THE LORD IS MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS, SLOW TO ANGER AND ABOUNDING IN MERCY! America is a corrupt and godless country which has sown the wind by the kind of leaders they elect; the evil culture they worship and their ungodly lifestyles we have. We deserve the Backhand of God slapping this country around from one side of the ocean to the other. Yet He is holding back! He is holding back! Not for much longer, but God is holding back some bad stuff, for the time being. For that reason alone, we should BLESS THE LORD, oh my soul!

PSALM 103: 6-10

The Lord executes righteousness

And justice for all who are oppressed.

7 

He made known His ways to Moses,

His acts to the children of Israel.

8 

The Lord is merciful and gracious,

Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.

9 

He will not always strive with us,

Nor will He keep His anger forever.

10 

He has not dealt with us according to our sins,

Nor punished us according to our iniquities.