Timeless Biblical Truth.
The LORD Most High will bless believers that they may praise Him for His works, including how He treats the wicked and the believer.
- It is always good for believers to praise the LORD continually for His faithfulness to His covenant with them, including His destruction of the wicked (1-7).
- It is always good for believers to praise the LORD continually and to declare His faithfulness to His covenant with them (1-3).
- It is always appropriate for believers to praise the LORD’S for all of His mighty works, including His judgment on the wicked (4-7).
- Believers in the LORD, the Most High, will be placed over the wicked and blessed abundantly to declare His righteousness (8-15).
- Believers confess that the LORD is the Most High (8).
- Believers will be placed over the wicked in the judgment (9-11).
- Believers will be richly blessed that they may declare His righteousness (12-15).
Questions for Second Milers
- Why is it good to praise God other than it fulfills a duty?
- What specific benefits have your received from God and have specifically given thanks to Him for them? Unworthy before, we must not be ungrateful after.
- Compare how much time you spend in praising and thanking God as when asking Him for blessings? Is it more, equal, or less?
- Compare the destiny of the wicked in verses 6-9 with Psalm 1:4-6.
- What is the significance of the images of grass and the palm tree? Which pictures permanence, dignity and fruitfulness (cf. the tree in Psalm 1:3)?
- To what extent does your life as a believer reflect this kind of prosperity and fruitfulness? Why or why not?
- Give your own short title to this psalm.
“If we would understand the parts, our wisest course is to get to know the whole—or at any rate, those parts of the whole which tell us in plain prose the writer’s central ideas. These give us the keys to all his work. Once we can see the main outlines of his thought and have grasped his general point of view, we are able to see the meaning of everything else—the point of his poems and the moral of his stories, and how the puzzling passages fit in with the rest.” J. I. Packer, “Biblical Authority, Hermeneutics and Inerrancy,” in Jerusalem and Athens, pp. 144-145.
“Good reading is an art.” Ralph Waldo Emerson: Journals, 5:24.
Lanny Tanton is the Pastor at The Bible Church of the Lakes in Horseshoe Bay, Texas – just outside of Marble Falls. Pastor Tanton welcomes you to our website and hopes that you’ll enjoy reading these insightful blog posts. Please contact us if you have further questions!!
