Walk Of Life – Day 27, February 2023 – Thoughts From The Book Of Psalms

Palm 135 – Pleasing Will of God

This psalm appeals to those who serve and minister the Lord to praise him in the courts of the Lord. In words of Former Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple, “To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.”

Everyone on earth irrespective of color, caste, creed, religion definitely have reasons to thank God. In ignorance to the truth many praise him in the form of an idol made of silver or gold which appear to have eyes, ears, mouth and body but is not able to help those who have put their trust in them. The psalmist here is not asking you to praise a god made of human hands but he is appealing you to know that, “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the spirit and in truth” John 4:24.

• Pleasing Will of God to make Himself be Known – It pleased God to have fellowship with his children, Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden. Satan defiled this relationship by deceiving them and sin separated God and Man forever. Although God acts in freedom according to his own pleasure, He could not let go of man whom He created in his own image, a little lower than the angels to go on to their destruction. So it pleased the one who commands the celestial and heavenly beings to reconcile man to himself.
• Pleasing Will of God to make Jacob his Own – He chose Abram to be his people, his treasured possession and made him a blessing to all the nations of the earth. He made his name renown through all generations by displaying his might and power when He delivered Jacob’s children from the bondage of slavery in Egypt.
• Pleasing Will of the Father and The Son to make Way for All to be his Own – And after many years, He did what in one sense was the hardest thing for God to do, “not spare his own Son” (Romans 8:32), out of his pleasing will so that mankind would be freed from the bondage of slavery to sin forever.
• The Hardest Act displayed for Us – The hardest act of the Father was to let his Son, Jesus Christ become the greatest sin and the greatest death to bring salvation to mankind. The hardest act of the Son on his way to Calvary, having had legions at his disposal, was to be separated from the Father on the cross while He laid down his life on his own good pleasure for the joy set before him that is to justify the ungodly like you and me.

So, let us stand in awe and wonder and with trembling that not only our praises of God’s sovereignty but also our salvation through the death of Christ for us, hang on this, “Our God is in heaven; he does whatever he pleases.”