Praise, Worship and Trust

Creation: A Divine Cycle
Praise from and for God's Creation

Praising God the Creator

Psalm 146:1-9. The Message

146 1-2 Hallelujah!
    O my soul, praise God!
All my life long I’ll praise God,
    singing songs to my God as long as I live.
3-9 Don’t put your life in the hands of experts
    who know nothing of life, of salvation life.
Mere humans don’t have what it takes;
    when they die, their projects die with them.
Instead, get help from the God of Jacob,
    put your hope in God and know real blessing!

For Reflection

In whom do you place your trust?

We all must trust each other to some degree or another.  Otherwise, we would be stunted by inaction and dominated by fear and paranoia.  From experience, we have learned whom we could trust and whom we could not.  Even so, we have, from time to time, trusted the untrustworthy.  Most of the time, misplaced trust is of minor consequence.  Occasionally, though, trusting the untrustworthy can result in calamities.

In our modern civilization, we live in a schizophrenic world where heart and reason seem to have little to do with each other and the sanctification of power seems to trivialize religion.  Blending our spiritual lives and our material lives seems far too complicated. How do you handle the split between knowledge and wisdom, between science and intuition or the subjective truths of religion and the observational truths of personal philosophy?

How can we infuse our material lives with ethics and our religion with reason?

Pray

Pray for the wisdom to leaven your material lives with ethics.  Pray that you will replace religious senselessness with a faith which unafraid of reason.  Pray, so that you will place your trust and hope in God.