Psalms 47
Psalms 47:1-9 (NLT)
1 For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah. Come, everyone! Clap your hands! Shout to God with joyful praise!
2 For the LORD Most High is awesome. He is the great King of all the earth.
3 He subdues the nations before us, putting our enemies beneath our feet.
4 He chose the Promised Land as our inheritance, the proud possession of Jacob’s descendants, whom he loves. Interlude
5 God has ascended with a mighty shout. The LORD has ascended with trumpets blaring.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises!
7 For God is the King over all the earth. Praise him with a psalm.
8 God reigns above the nations, sitting on his holy throne.
9 The rulers of the world have gathered together with the people of the God of Abraham. For all the kings of the earth belong to God. He is highly honored everywhere.
Before a single praise is lifted, before He is even considered at all, the God of Creation is everything that when stated endlessly all through eternity will just be an understatement of His greatness. He is an awesome, conquering, providing, King who is over all other entities and rulers. Praises have nothing to do with altering or changing this truth in the least. They have everything to do, though, with the participation in each reality. In singing the praise of His throne there is submission to its realm, its justice, and its blessings in wisdom. In proclaiming His honor is the elevation of His worth far above things that cannot begin to return on their investment and must be set aside for Him. In the praise of mercy is the reception of a righteousness that qualifies for healing, wisdom, and deliverance that condemnation will never allow. He never changes, but in each of His praises, released from a heart of joyful beholding and discovery, there is an opportunity for an opportunity for that praised aspect to become an overwhelming reality of life by faith. If each praise proclaimed has this potential, then each praise withheld may also be withholding that reality of who He is from personal experience. Rather than longing and striving for Him to become something else to us, there is entrance into who He has been all along in the expanding of His praises. Finding out who He already is and letting it be the subject of a heart song with joy will affect what can be changed by what will never – our Awesome God.