Some years ago an American Pastor called S.M. Lockridge delivered a 7 minute long description of Jesus as part of a sermon. If you’ve never listened to it please take time today to look it up on YouTube it’s one of the most powerful and uplifting sermons I’ve ever heard. It’s available at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwQqQkdn_5Q or you can Google “That’s my King.” During the course of the talk, Lockridge repeated the same line several times, “That’s my King! Do you know Him?”
Psalm 103 is a song of praise like Lockridge’s sermon. A song that describes God in all His glory. It is a song that describes God’s love for His people and set’s out the desires of His heart for His people. It lays bare His overwhelming passion for His creation. It shows us His pain when we’ve done wrong and His delight when we’ve repented. It reminds us of some of the history He has established with those who followed Him. It declares to us that His promises are true and everlasting, and it sets Him apart from anything else that we might set up in place of him. It teaches us that He knows us better than we could ever know ourselves because He was the one who created us. It demonstrates His compassion for us and reminds us that when life is over, He will still be there for us through all of eternity.
If you need a few verses to remind you why you believe in God these ones are a brilliant summary of The God of Glory and of all that He is and all He should mean to us.
Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name!
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Question:
How do you feel when you read a psalm like this as they are so often read in churches – in a monotone voice with no real expression? How do you feel when this one is read with passion and power?
Action:
Find somewhere where you can read the Psalm 103 again without having to worry about what others might think. Read it out loud and with vigour and expression. See how it makes you feel as you do it.
Prayer:
Lord God, fill us with the same love and passion that heaven is filled with bless us in mind and spirit to walk all our days rejoicing in who you are. Amen.