What is Praise?
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005The sermon this past Sunday really made me think about praising God in a different way. The speaker said that our purpose in life is to glorify God, and one of the ways we do that is by praising Him. Then he said that it seems strange that God would create us for the purpose of prasing Him, as if God created us out of vanity. I’ve wondered about this myself.
But then he said that part of being able to truly enjoy something is prasing it. We do it all the time when we talk about a sport we really like or a person we love. Praising completes enjoyment. It’s just as much for our benefit and maybe more so. If I feel that praising God is a chore and seems awkward, then maybe what it really means is that I’m not enjoying being with Him.
I’m not sure if that is theologically correct, but that’s what I understood.

