"Praise you the Lord." (Psalm 150:1)
Who? You--whether you have ever done so before or not. Why?
"Praise Him for His mighty acts: praise Him according to His excellent greatness." (Psalm 150:2)
His mighty acts are seen in the things which He has made. One may have little of the world's possessions, but all share in the light, the air, the life, and those things of creation which no man's selfishness can monopolize.
Made From Nothing
In the beginning God created the world from nothing, "So that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." (Hebrews 11:3) "He spoke and it was, He commanded and it stood fast." (Psalm 33:9)
We may praise Him for the might which could make something where nothing was before.
Made From Less Than Nothing
The same power that created now saves. If we could make any comparison between the various ways in which Infinite power is exercised, we might say that the mightiest of the acts for which all may praise Him is the great act of salvation.
He made the earth from nothing. It was a harder case in making the Christian, for fallen man was "less than nothing, and vanity." (Isaiah 40:17)
Praise God for His excellent might, which can create the "new creature" where was worse than nothing. "Less than nothing, and vanity." (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Praise God for His excellent might, which can create the "new creature" where was worse than nothing. "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." (2 Corinthians 5:17)--Present Truth, August 27, 1896--Psalm 150:1.