Praise Psalms

Scripture: Psalm 103:1-22 (NRSV)

This Sunday we’re concluding our series on the Psalms with Psalm 103, a psalm of praise. Praise helps us hone in on the wonder and joy of this precious, short life of ours. So when you’re praising and blessing God, you’re doing what’s most important and lasting, partaking of the eternal in the midst of the fragility and brevity of this life. So hold nothing back. Go all out. Let there be no moderation. Luther described what our praise should be like: “body and soul; eyes, ears, and all limbs and sense; reason and all faculties.” In other words, your total being—your deepest recesses. Not just your brain or your mouth. Don’t be half-hearted about it. Be all in. Let it rip. Praise taps us into our life purpose—to glorify God and enjoy him forever.

I love how CS Lewis puts it in his Reflections on the Psalms:
… not to praise “is to have lost the greatest experience, and in the end, to have lost it all.”

September 5, 2021 – Online Service Bulletin and Bible Study

Sermon Art: “Bless the Lord O My Soul, Psalm 103” (Parody Art Prints)

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Other Sermons In This Series

Blues Psalms

August 29, 2021

Questioning Psalms

August 15, 2021

Trust Psalms

August 22, 2021