Studies in the Psalms - Psalm 150

I have a t-shirt that I purchased at a hiking store in the Smokey Mountains many years ago that has on the back, these words, The Journey IS the Destination. This morning I have arrived at the final psalm of the wonderful journey in the Book of Psalms. Certainly, the journey has, in a sense, been a destination each day. But regardless of a saying on a shirt, there is an end to all earthly journeys and I have arrived there today.

The Book of Psalms is a journey of emotions and in the psalms, we find all of the emotions of the human life. David, who wrote a good portion of the psalms, was, like us, an emotional man. As one who battles with the demons of depression, as David certainly did, the Psalms are a great comfort. But in the end of it, I think there is a final concluding thought that Psalm 150 sums up about the book. That thought is this; we are to praise and worship God every day and every moment of this life, for that is what we will do in eternity. No matter what our feelings and emotions are, we must still be praising God, even in the worst of the battles and no matter where we are.

Psalm 150:1-2
Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens!  Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!

Music is a gift from God and it is one of the ways we are to praise Him.

Psalm 150:3-5
Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!  Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!  Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!

Psalm 150 uses the word praise thirteen times. It commands us to praise God. All of us.

Psalm 150:6
Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!

Everything that has breath is to praise God. Everything. That would mean everyone. Conclusion? Praise God. Praise Him everywhere you go and in every circumstance; good or bad.

To God be the glory.

I end this journey with the place of its beginning.

Psalm 1:1-6
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;  but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.  He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.  The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.  Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

Be blessed.

Amen