Psalm
135 English
Standard Version (ESV)
135
Praise the Lord!
Praise the name of the Lord,
give praise, O servants
of the Lord,
2
who stand in the house of the Lord,
in the courts of the
house of our God!
3
Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;
sing to his name, for it
is pleasant![a]
4
For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,
Israel as his own
possession.
5
For I know that the Lord is great,
and that our Lord is
above all gods.
6
Whatever the Lord pleases, he does,
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and all
deeps.
7
He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth,
who makes lightnings for
the rain
and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
8
He it was who struck down the firstborn of Egypt,
both of man and of
beast;
9
who in your midst, O Egypt,
sent signs and wonders
against Pharaoh and all
his servants;
10
who struck down many nations
and killed mighty kings,
11
Sihon, king of the Amorites,
and Og, king of Bashan,
and all the kingdoms of
Canaan,
12
and gave their land as a heritage,
a heritage to his people
Israel.
13
Your name, O Lord, endures forever,
your renown,[b] O Lord, throughout all
ages.
14
For the Lord will vindicate his people
and have compassion on
his servants.
15
The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
16
They have mouths, but do not speak;
they have eyes, but do
not see;
17
they have ears, but do not hear,
nor is there any breath
in their mouths.
18
Those who make them become like them,
so do all who trust in
them.
19
O house of Israel, bless the Lord!
O house of Aaron, bless
the Lord!
20
O house of Levi, bless the Lord!
You who fear the Lord,
bless the Lord!
21
Blessed be
the Lord from Zion,
he who dwells in Jerusalem!
Praise the Lord!
As
I read this passage this morning two things stood out clearly to me. The first was in verse 6, He does whatever He
pleases. How many of us think we have
earned that right? Have you ever said,
“I’ll do what I please, I don’t care what anyone else says?” Often times, as we go through maturity these
words slip out of our mouths. It might
be at 18, 40, 60, 80 . . . We may think
we have earned the right because of all that we have accomplished in this
life. It seems the older we get the more
rights that we think we have. None of
this is true, unless we have formed the clouds, made rain and lightening, or did
any of the wonders of our God. There is
always someone older than us who has the only right to do what He pleases. We need to always strive to please Him in our
actions and even our thoughts. We need
to do as He pleases because He knows best.
Sometimes we get that direction from good godly friends whom we love and
trust and who God has placed in our lives.
The
second thing that stood out to me were verses 15 – 16. Idols made of gold and silver. Often times we hear that an idol can be
anything that you put in place of God.
These verses specifically are idols that people bow down and
worship. They have no voice and they do
not see but people will bow down and worship them. Those who worship them become deaf to the
words of God, they do not see Him, and they do not hear Him.
Our
God can see and He can hear and He is waiting for us to come to Him. No other god can do as he pleases because he
is not God our God is, as I have said before, the One True God. No other gods have any place in our
lives. Worship and adore Him and do as
He pleases. Seek Him and know that He is
the One True God.
Seeking
Him with all my heart,
Sheila
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