Psalm 18:3 “I call to the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.”
If you’ve ever had children you’ve been in a position to demand obedience, sometimes it is given willingly and sometimes grudgingly with what we call “an attitude”. I love the times when my children have willingly given of themselves or their time for something that wasn’t asked of them, they did it because they wanted to. It’s much the same way with
our praise to God. He could demand it of us and then we could make the same choice as our children, to give it willingly or grudgingly with an attitude. The sweetness of praise becomes that it is our gift to Him, it’s given willingly because we just love Him so much we need an outlet to pour out our emotions to Him. Joyful and spontaneous praise is reflected from the heart into the eyes, and there’s nothing sweeter to our Father than that.
Terri Pettyjohn is a regular contributor to ExperiencingWorship.com Her devotionals and Women in Worship articles are a favorite of many of our users as she seeks to touch the hearts of others through her writing. Terri currently lives in Farmington, NM where she is pursuing a career in free-lance writing. She is an attender of Pinon Hills Community Church and volunteers on a regular basis in the Worship Arts Ministry. When she is not busy there she is investing in the lives of her grandchildren and others.