Psalm 145:1-7
Psalm 145, Day 1. The title says “A Psalm of Praise.” My Study Bible notes that this Psalm has the only occurrence of “praise” in the title, and that the name of the entire Book of Psalms, the “Psalter” gets its name as the plural of “praise”. My Study Bible has helped me quite a bit in reading through and understanding the Psalms. Again, here, the authors noted that all of Psalm 145 speaks praise to the Lord and tells of His acts and His virtues, His goodness and His greatness. That’s a better descriptor than I could have ever come up with!
What intrigues me today as I read through the entire Psalm is how the writer (David?) goes from 2nd person to 3rd person and back, again and again. All of today’s verses are 2nd person, except for verse 3 in the 3rd person. Then tomorrow verses 8 and 9 go back to 3rd person, then again in 13b-14 before closing out this psalm in verses 17-21 in the 3rd person. Then verses 10-12 and 15-16 are 2nd person. Interesting.
One generation shall commend Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts. (v. 4) It had been our plan (now possibly undone by the weather) to have all our children here together on Christmas afternoon and overnight, four kids and their spouses, together with our five grandkids. And it’s been interesting to watch the parents and Carol and me teaching about Jesus’ birth – with a real focus on Christmas being about the “Baby Jesus”, God’s great gift to the world. Truly playing out One generation shall commend Your works to another … and another … and another …!!