“...to triumph in thy praise.”
Commentators have little or nothing to say on this excerpt from our text. Those who do have a comment, vary in their interpretation of it. The word praise itself, in its various forms, is found some 314 times in scripture. It is one of the most powerful and poignant words in the Bible.
Rather than concern ourselves with, “What meaneth this?” in reference to this verse, we will first, as we should with all the holy writ, emphasize, “What saith the scripture.” And that is plain; we are triumphant when we praise our God.
Victorious Christians are praising Christians. To cease from the latter is to bring instant defeat to the former. When David was praising God we are told he was leaping over walls. But on that dark night, standing on his veranda, when praise ceased to come from his lips, he experienced the greatest setback of his life.
We are to always be praising God. But Paul tells us in the New Testament there is a particular time when it becomes special, and that is when we, “...offer the sacrifice of praise to God.” May each of us follow darling David’s example, “Neither will I offer...offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing.
Praise has much more worth when it costs us!
(rds)
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