What It Means to Bless the Lord

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Authentic speaking about God’s goodness and greatness must come from the soul. Blessing God with the mouth without the soul would be hypocrisy.

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0:00.0	August 17th, what it means to bless the Lord.
0:06.3	Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me,
0:11.3	bless his holy name, Psalm 103, verse 1.
0:18.0	The psalm begins and ends with the psalmist preaching
0:23.4	to his soul to bless the Lord.
0:26.9	Bless the Lord, O my soul, and preaching to the angels
0:32.4	and the hosts of heaven and the works of God's hands
0:35.6	that they should do the same.
0:37.3	Bless the Lord, O you his angels.
0:40.8	You mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word.
0:46.8	Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers who do his will.
0:51.2	Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion.
0:56.0	Bless the Lord, O my soul, Psalm 103, verses 20 to 22.
1:03.1	The psalmist overwhelmingly focused on blessing the Lord.
1:09.1	What does it mean to bless the Lord?
1:15.2	It means to speak well of his greatness and goodness
1:20.2	and really mean it from the depths of your soul.
1:24.6	What David is doing in the first and last verses of this psalm,
1:29.8	when he says,
1:31.0	bless the Lord, O my soul,
1:34.3	is saying that authentic speaking about God's goodness
1:38.6	and greatness must come from the soul.
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