Psalm 115

To God be the glory!

This is the only way for us to to live in wisdom. If we live for our own glory, we live under the oppression of idolatry. I am not the highest being in the universe. The Lord is. It is right that everyone should glorify the Lord.

It is also right for the Lord to glorify Himself above everything that He has created. This does not mean that we lose out. He has abounding love and steadfast commitment to us as His people. When He magnifies His own Name, we who are called by that Name should greatly rejoice. We are blessed in Him.

We humans seem to have a preference for a God we can see and even carry around. Our God reigns from heaven's heights. He does all that He pleases. This place of highest power and authority is where Jesus went after He had sufficiently displayed the reality of His resurrection to many witnesses. He now reigns over all, and He gives gifts to the church.

You become like the god that you worship. If you worship a convenient, lifeless god, what will you become? But if you worship the I-AM, what is your destiny, together with all who call upon the Name?

The Lord will bless His Israel and His church. We are priests to Him; servants and sons. He intends to shower the richest blessing upon all who worship Him, no matter how despised they may be in the eyes of the powerful in the present age.

May the Lord grant you great increase! May He also bless your loved ones! May all those you love be blessed by the One who is most able to fill your lives with every good gift, the God who who created the heavens and the earth. Above all, may He give Himself to you and yours, not just for a brief moment, but forever in His eternal kingdom.

We will live! We will live forever! We will praise the Lord forever, together with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, together with all the Lord's chosen ones. The Author of life has come, and through His death and resurrection, He has defeated death for us. He is the resurrection, and the life. Rejoice in the Lord, and be glad! Even the earth, which He has given to the sons of men, will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, forever and ever, Amen!