I’ve been wanting to use my blog to praise God. All the translation, biblical studies, missions, etc. stuff is fine and good. And the goofiness is also good. They are in their way all sacramental expressions of my praise to God (even the goofiness, really!). But I would like to overtly dedicate some posts to glorifying God. As a prayer from the Book of Common Prayer says,
As the Sun of Righteousness dawns in our hearts, anoint our lips with the seal of your Spirit that we may witness to your gospel and sing your praise in all the world, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Source: Celebrating Common Prayer, Form 5, Morning: The Preparation
I’ve really been obsessed lately by our dual purpose of witnessing to the gospel and singing God’s praise in all the world. So, I’m thinking about launching Cyber-Psalms on Fridays with a prayer/psalm and possibly even a melody when appropriate. Any ideas on how I might do this? The Monday Prayer for the world series is for me more about intercession for the world, while Cyber-Psalms would be God-directed praise “in all the world.”
I’d love to hear your ideas.
I just finished reading ( not really finished but through the first time) “Christ- The sum of all spiritual things” by Watchman Nee.
I think his point is that Christ is everything. When God reveals to us that Christ is everything then we will be able to truly praise Him. We should not seek good traits, humility, generosity, compassion, etc. but only seek to know Christ. When we truly know Him these traits will follow.
Not sure where I am going, but when we seek Him only and not things, like good traits, we will be giving praise to Him.
As you may have seen from my psalms blog (drmacdonald.blogspot.com) I like to see and read psalms and make diagrams of them based on the structure. I am almost half way through – and I hope to do a study of psalm 119 when I finish the last 6 parts – but that diagram is almost too big to handle. Anyway, psalm away – I will be reading. I think the psalms are where we really meet each other in the faith – Jew & Christian & people of all sorts. Nowhere else do I find the invitation to covenant dialogue more honestly expressed. So don’t forget the enemies and the laments – even if making such enemies was partly your own fault!
This resource my husband and I found recently, Prayerbook Project might help with the song/melody inspiration.
I look forward to your Cyber-Psalms!