“Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with tambourine and lyre. For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.” (v. 3-4)

As you approach the end if the Book of Psalms—specifically Psalms 144 through 150–you find a consistent theme:

Praise God.

Those who know of His help and His goodness and His salvation and His sovereignty ought to praise Him. They ought to do it in the house of worship. They ought to do it in their own hearts. They ought to do it with prayers and with songs and with every kind of instrument they’ve got.

God is worthy, so we praise Him.

But…would like to know one of the best and most baffling truths of all of Scripture?

The God you know? The One you love? The One for whom your strong feelings overflow and turn to praise?

He loves you, too.

He takes pleasure in you. He delights in you. While you lift your eyes to praise Him, He sets His eyes on you, for you are an object of His passion.

The love that compels our praise is really a two-way street, and that by grace.

So, even as the Psalms end, keep the praises coming.

— Tyler