Todays Promise: I stand in Awe of You Psalms 111 1 Praise ye the Lord. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation. *Hallelujah is a Hebrew word. It means say that the *LORD is very great. When two people (or groups of people) agree we call it a *covenant (or an agreement). In this *covenant: · God agrees to love his people and give them help; if · God’s people are his servants and love and obey him. 2 The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. 3 His work is honorable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever. When we understand that God is the greatest king in *heaven or earth, we honor him. This means that we are very polite to him. We are even a bit afraid of him. This is a special being afraid that Christians call awe. It means that we know that God is much more powerful than we are. 4 He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion. 5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant. 6 He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. These are things that only God can do. Miracles can only be done by God. As part of the *covenant, the *psalmist writes about three miracles. One is in verse 5. God gave the people food when they travelled from Egypt to their new home in Canaan. Today we call Canaan Israel and Palestine. You can read about this miracle in Exodus 16. God sent his people bread from *heaven. *Heaven is either the sky or the home of God. The Bible calls this bread manna. The other miracle is in verse 6, he gave them lands. These lands were where the people of Canaan lived. God sent these people away and put the *Jews there instead. You can read about this miracle in the Book of Joshua. The third miracle is in verse 9. God made his people free. They were slaves in Egypt, but God made them free. The story of this is in Exodus chapters 1-15. 7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure. Here the Psalmist talks of trust. Here it means We believe that Gods rules are the best things that we can do. He will not tell us to do anything that is bad for us. Sometimes it may seem silly. But we must still *trust that God is right! We often hear God speaking to us when we read the Bible. 8 They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness. 9 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name. *holy... This is a word like *righteous. God is *holy and *righteous. *Holy means that he never does anything wrong. *Righteous means that he always does what is right. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever. A *wise choice is when we decide to do the right thing. We think about a problem. Then we choose (make a choice) what to do. If we are afraid of God (better, in awe of God) then we will usually make the best choice. Awe is a special being afraid ... not because we think that God will hurt us. Rather, because we love God, we do not want to hurt him! We can hurt God by making the wrong choice! *Wise people have wisdom. An old translation of this verse says The fear of the *LORD is the beginning of wisdom. This kind of fear (or being afraid) is the same as awe. You will also find this verse in Proverbs 1:7 and 9:10.
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