Into Psalm 147.1 this morning. For the people of the Lord it is good to sing praises to our God. The Psalmist does not say why it is good because he does not need to; the point is self-explanatory. He just says that giving praises is fitting and pleasant. We give praise to God because we cannot help ourselves, God created us to praise and so out it comes much like a fountain that is constantly overflowing.
C. S. Lewis gets the point correct - I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.
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