Let His Praise Consume Me

PSALMS 71:8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.

This psalm of David really strikes a chord deep within my heart. We are taught in Philippians 4:8 that whatsoever things are honest, just, pure, lovely, of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise... to think on those things. When the news reports all around speak of gloom and doom, the stock market is crashing, the flu is spreading, and the world is going tee-totally insane it's time to think about other things. It's time to think about the Good News.

We can't control what happens in this world. We can't control the government, the swine flu, the bird flu, the stock market crashing, or the economy collapsing. But what we can control is what we choose to think about and to talk about. We can choose what we want to meditate on. Psalms 1 tells us that blessed is the man whose delight is in the law of the Lord and who meditate on it day and night. I choose to think about the good things. I choose to praise God in the midst of chaos, because my soul is at peace. In Him, I have complete and total rest.

Those words that the shepherd-warrior-king penned so long ago resonate in today's world more deeply than ever: Let my mouth be filled with Your praise and with Your honor. Let His praises consume me. Let all that I am never cease to praise His Name! The stock market shed another 500 points? So what! He will provide my needs according to His riches in glory. My job situation looks shaky? So what! My Father owns the cattle on a thousand hills. 

No matter what your situation is today, it's time to look at the sunny side of life.  It's time to think about the good things. Stop listening to the peddlers of depression and anxiety in the media, and start listening to what a prophet said to this generation! And when you think about the good things He's done for you, I guarantee you that you will feel like praising Him.