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September 6
Saturday


LET ME BE
SINGING

READ:
Psalm 150
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Let everything that has
breath praise the LORD.
__Psalm 150:6
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When I asked a friend how his mother was getting along, he told me that dementia had robbed her of the ability to remember a great many names and events from the past. "Even so," he added, "she can still sit down at the piano and, without sheet music, beautifully play hymns by memory.

Plato and Aristotle wrote about the helping, healing power of music 2,500 years ago. But centuries before that, the biblical record was saturated with song.

From the first mention of Jubal, "the father of all those who play the harp and flute" (Gen. 4:21), to those who "sing the song of Moses, the servant of God and the song of the Lamb" (Rev.15:3), the pages of the Bible resonate with music. The Psalms, often called "the Bible's songbook," point us to the love and faithfulness of God. They conclude with an unending call to worship, "Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD!" (Ps. 150:6).

Today we need God's ministry of music in our hearts as much as any time in history. Whatever each day brings, may the evening find us singing, "To You, O my Strength, I will sing praises; for God is my defense, my God of mercy" (59:17). __David McCasland

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`````````````````````````````````thanksgiving in whatever lies ahead.````````````````````
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Praise to God comes naturally
when you count your blessings.

***********************************Today's Bible Reading __ Psalm 150**********************************

1 Praise the LORD! Praise
God in His sanctuary;
praise Him in His mighty
firmament!

2 Praise Him for His
mighty acts; praise Him
according to His excellent
greatness!

3 Praise Him with the
sound of the trumpet; praise
Him with the lute and harp!

4 Praise Him with the
timbrel and dance; praise
Him with stringed
instruments and flutes!

5 Praise Him with loud
cymbals; praise Him with
clashing cymbals!

6 Let everything that has
breath praise the LORD.

Praise the LORD!

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The last five songs of Israel's hymnbook are also known as
Hallelujah Psalms, because each of them (Psalms 146-150) begins
and ends with the refrain "Praise the LORD" (Hebrew Hallelujah).
Psalm 150 answers three important questions: Who should praise
God? (vv.1,6). Why should God be praised? (v.2). How is He to
be praised? (vv.3-5). The psalmist calls on "everything that has
breath" to worship God (v.6)__including creatures on earth and
angels in the heavens (v.1). We should praise God for what He has
done ("His mighty acts" v2) and for who He is ("His excellent
greatness" v.2). We are to praise Him with our voices, with the
accompaniment of all kinds of instruments, and with dancing (vv.3-
6). "Let everything that has breath praise the LORD: (v.6) is indeed a
fitting final doxology to God.