We've been talking about singing this week on the podcast, and about singing hymns.

Not any particular hymns, but hymns in general.

But I wonder, do you ever have the experience I've had when, out of nowhere it seems,

the question comes into your mind?

Does God actually like this?

Maybe we are in church singing something like, how great that we are, or a mighty fortress

is our God, or perhaps something more modern, and the question pops into our minds.

Does this please God?

Are those people right after all, whose only question about the praises we sing is not

what a God wants it, but whether we like it, whether we enjoy it?

After all, we may not be very good singers, and does that mean God doesn't like it?

On the other hand, he is the great God of eternity, the one without beginning or end or cause.

So why should we think that our singing praise to him would give him any pleasure?

Scripture gives us some interesting reasons for believing that God loves it when his people praise him.

One reason is that Scripture itself, God's Word, arches us to do it.

And when words breathed out by God and written down by men tell us to praise him,

then we can safely assume he wants us to do it, and that it gives him a kind of pleasure.

The kind of pleasure a father has when he's, let's say, three-year-old daughter starts singing to him

and tells him, I love you, Daddy.

Another reason is that the Bible contains an entire book, actually its longest book,

that's composed of songs of praises, requests, and laments, I mean the book of Psalms.

That would hardly be the case unless God is a desire to listen to us.

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