From Sunrise to Sunset!

I heard the words of a praise song this morning: “from the rising sun to the setting same, I will praise your Name”! I knew that this was taken straight from the Psalms and I looked at several versions None spoke to me like The Passion Translation did:

3From sunrise-brilliance to sunset-beauty,

lift up his praise from dawn to dusk!

4For he rules on high over the nations

with a glory that outshines even the heavens.

5No one can be compared to God, enthroned on high!

6He stoops down to look upon the sky and the earth.

7He promotes the poor, picking them up from the dirt,

and rescues the needy from the garbage dump.

8He turns paupers into princes and seats them

on their royal thrones of honor.

9God’s grace provides for the barren ones a joyful home with children

so that even childless couples find a family.

He makes them happy parents surrounded by their pride and joy.

That’s the God we praise, so give it all to him!

After I read the verses 3 and 4, I couldn’t help but go on. For our God does not just give us glorious sunrises and fabulous sunsets, but all throughout the day He is working- ruling over the nations, promoting the poor and needy into a different place, and providing families even for the barren.

In other words God is doing what no man can do on his own. He is creating, mending, building, freeing, keeping, raising, and blessing upon blessing in innumerable ways. We can’t outdo God, we can’t out give God. He alone is worthy of all the praise, all the glory, all the honor. If we could but understand how our lives would be enriched if we would “from the rising sun, to the setting of same – just praise His Name!”

Maria