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Wednesday... But are they really great?


Psalm 150:2 (NLT), "Praise him for his mighty works; praise him for his unequaled greatness."

Wednesday... But are they really great?

We are right now in the midst of two competitions and we are hearing the reasons why they are great. Now one is the election of the President of the United States, They do mention in their advertisement of each ones greatness but more about the other ones weakness or faults. This will be over the first week in November.


The other competition is the World Series of baseball. Now the advertisement of the WS has focused on the greatness of two individual players on each team and the truth is neither one of those players have lived up to their ads but the competition between the New Your Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodger has been exciting to watch. Now I am partial to the Dodgers. I have been a fan of them for a long time so I am excited that they are ahead in the Series but they still have to win one more to win the Series. Again the two players, Judge and Ohtani who have been lifted up and praised have been a disappointment but Psalm 150:2 is a different story.

The New Living Translation says, "Praise him for his mighty works; praise him for his unequaled greatness." The Amplified Bible says, "Praise  Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to [the abundance of] His greatness,"

Verse 1a says (NLT), "Praise the Lord!" and then verse 6 says, "Let everything that breathes sing praises to the Lord! Praise the Lord!"

Now Deuteronomy 3:24 (AMP) says, "O Lord God, You have only begun to show Your greatness and Your mighty hand; for what god is there in heaven or on earth that can do such works and mighty acts (miracles) as Yours?"

Verses 23-25 in The Message says, "At the same time, I begged God: 'God, my Master, you let me in on the beginnings, you let me see your might - what god in Heaven or Earth can do anything like what you have done! Please, let me in on the endings, let me cross the river and see the good land over the Jordan, the lush hills, the Lebanon mountains.'"

And the truth is, we haven't really seen anything yet. Our Lord God is great and is worthy of our praise.

Now the four humans that we seem to be very involved in right now have some greatness in the accomplishments but they in no way compare to our Lord. We can and will be disappointed in their greatness but never in our Lord. 

Verse 24 in the New International Reader's Version says, "Lord and King, you have begun to show me how great you are. You have shown me how strong your hand is. You do great works and mighty acts. There isn't any god in heaven or on earth who can do what you do."

So lets, Psalm 150:2 (NLT), "Praise him for his mighty works; praise him for his unequaled greatness." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 

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