Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Today, we'll open our Bibles to Psalm 145, where we will be encouraged to live for something

bigger than ourselves.

To hear more of these Bible studies, visit paultrip.com slash psalms. Here's Paul Tripp with Psalm 145.

The fact of the matter is, self-focus, self-interest, meism never produces a happy life. It never produces healthy

relationships. It never makes you thankful. Well, I love Psalm 145. I guess I've said that for many Psalms. This one has been particularly helpful for me. I would title Psalm 145, Living for something bigger than you.

There's something that you and I tend to do. We tend to make life all about us. We tend to shrink

our lives down to the small confines of our wants, our needs, and our

feelings. We tend to put ourselves in the center and make life all about us. It's a meistic

way of living. No, that's not a word. I made it up.

Somehow everything becomes about how it affects us. Everything is about our wants, our goals, our plans, our emotions.

And the fact of the matter is,

self-focus, self-interest, meism

never produces a happy life.

It never produces healthy relationships.

It never makes you thankful.

It never produces love for God and worship of God. And so Psalm 145 sits in the Psalms

to confront our meism with the truth that we were created to live for something vastly bigger than ourselves.

I will extol you, my God and King.

I will praise your name forever and ever.

Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever.

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