“Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in His sanctuary: praise Him in the firmament of His power.
Praise Him for His mighty acts: praise Him according to His excellent greatness.
Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet: praise Him with the psaltery and harp.
Praise Him with the timbrel and dance: praise Him with stringed instruments and organs.
Praise Him upon the loud cymbals: praise Him upon the high sounding cymbals.
Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.” Psalms 150:1-6 (KJB)
firmament
His Going Forth
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night shows knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has He set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and His circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.” Psalm 19:1-6 (KJB)
Praising GOD
“Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in His sanctuary: praise Him in the firmament of His power.” Psalm 150:1 (KJV)
One thing a Christian can learn from reading the Psalms, and especially those that express “Praise ye the LORD”; is that we are to “Praise the LORD”.
It does not matter the time, the place, life’s situation or circumstances; the child of God is to praise the LORD. Why? Because He is worthy. That is reason enough.
Let me have Charles H. Spurgeon give you his words concerning Psalm 150:1;
“Praise ye the Lord.” Hallelujah! The exhortation is to all things in earth or in heaven. Should they not all declare the glory of him for whose glory they are, and were created? Jehovah, the one God, should be the one object of adoration. To give the least particle of his honour to another is shameful treason; to refuse to render it to him is heartless robbery. “Praise God in his sanctuary.” Praise El, or the strong one, in his holy place. See how power is mentioned with holiness in this change of names. Praise begins at home. “In God’s own house pronounce his praise.” The holy place should be filled with praise, even as of old the high-priest filled the sanctum sanctorum with the smoke of sweet-smelling incense. In his church below and in his courts above hallelujahs should be continually presented. In the person of Jesus God finds a holy dwelling or sanctuary, and there he is greatly to be praised. He may also be said to dwell in holiness, for all his ways are right and good; for this we ought to extol him with heart and with voice. Whenever we assemble for holy purposes our main work should be to present praises unto the Lord our God. “Praise him in the firmament of his power.” It is a blessed thing that in our God holiness and power are united. Power without righteousness would be oppression, and righteousness without power would be too weak for usefulness; but put the two together in an infinite degree and we have God. What an expanse we have in the boundless firmament of divine power! Let it all be filled with praise. Let the heavens, so great and strong, echo with the praise of the thrice holy Jehovah, while the sanctuaries of earth magnify the Almighty One.
from the TREASURY OF DAVID, e-Sword edition
We ought always Praise the LORD; for He is worthy of praise, worship, and adoration.
The Glory of God
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handywork.” Psalm 19:1 (KJV)
The Bible speaks of the “Glory of God” quite frequently. As I read the Scriptures it seems to me that is what the Bible is all about. The GOD who has made all things, including humanity, wants us all to know Him and His glory. He even has provide the fallen race with the way to Himself.
The Psalmist saw it in his day. David was out under the stars most of the time as a shepherd boy guarding sheep, protecting the sheep, and leading them to clean water. Every evening as the sun would be setting in the west he could and would lift up his eyes and watch for that first star; and behold it in wonder.
People who love God have an appreciation for God’s handiwork. We can see it in the stars. We see it in all of creation. We see God’s working even in our farm animals, our pets, and the people who are our neighbors.
I love watching the stars. I sometimes refer to them as “The floor joists of heaven”. If the floor joists of heaven are so beautiful; I cannot begin to imagine what God’s heaven is like, except for what we are told by Scripture.
As I am writing this it is still dark out, the sky is partially clear, the moon is hanging in the west, and there are a few stars which can be seen. “The heavens declare the glory of God…” and so will I. Will you join me today in declaring the glory of God.
Begin by believing God. His Son Jesus tells us, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but by Me.” And He also tells us, “This is the work of God; that you believe on Him whom He has sent.” Do so today declaring the glory of God.
The Fire and Hammer 