Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-22
A PSALM OF PRAISE.
Psalm cill-22.
Golden Text--"Bless Jehovah,
o my soul. Psalm GILL.

Although scholars differ as to the
author of the Psalm of Praise" as
signed for our consideration today. this
great outpouring OF forgiven soul has
personal appeal. 1t sounds note
that every person feels as he meditatet
upon its soul-stirring message. 1t has
a universal appeal because SIN Is found
everywhere, and all who have found
peace and forgiveness feel the divine
urge within them to express their graft
tude to God for His grace that has
saved the saved soul.
Ingratitude is said to be mans great
est sin. Every person who takes time
to count the many blessings that God
has bestowed upon him individually will
soon be inspired to magnify and ac-
knowledge the Lord as the giver of all
physical, material and spiritual bless
ings of life. Daily we face the peril of
forgetting how God has saved, forgiven,
healed and redeemed us from destruc-
ton. The wages Of sin is death, bu.
Gods loving kindness and tender mercy
has secured for us a salvation that blots
out our iniquitieS and remembers them
against us no more. He crowns our
lives as victors over iniquity, so that our
whole being feels like blessing God. Our
food is His gift to us and it enables us
to renew our strength like the eagles.
ings should inspire Ills to praise Jehovah.
Praise Gods Character.
The psalnist recognized the fact that
others besides himself ought to praise
Jehovah because of His righteousness
and Judgment. We ought not to con-
slider that the gifts of His grace that We
receive of the Lord are gifts Of His good
nature. Looking over the world the
psalmist recognized that when Jehovah
indicated those who had been d.
pressed 1t was due to His personality.
His restoration of those who had been
oppressed to their former place and
happiness by raising up deliverers for
those who had been compelled to suffer
was due to His personal character. He
had seen the expressions caused by
mems sins, and in answer to their ap-
plication for relief Jehovah bestows His
grace. He Is impartial in His iuog-
ments and deals justly with all that are
oppressed. God never fails to rescue
His people and to punish those WHO
Cypress them. He treated the pharaohs
of Egypt and the rulers in Babylonia in
accordance with His principles of JUS
tice.
The mercy and grace that He re-
vealed to Moses teaches us not only
Gods character but his attitude toward
without doubt refers to the answer that
Jehovah gave Moses IN answer to his
second request for larger revocation.
And the Lord passed by him and pro-
claimed. the Lord. the Lord God. zner-
ciful and gracious, long-suffering and
abundant in goodness and truth, keep
ing mercy for thousands, forgiving in
iquity and transgression and sin and
that will by no means clear the guilty"
This truth could be supplemented from
other passages of the Bible that Illus
trate Gods motives and methods in
dealing with sinners. Even In the hours
when he is compelled to deal severely
with individuals His people or nations,
because of their persistent sin or stub
bornness of heart, yet the psalmist tells
us that He will not always chide." and
that In the midst of His severity of pun
ishment God will not forget His purpose
Of bestowing grace in accordance with
His principles. He is always seeking
and welcoming the penitent's cry for
pardon and the opportunity to be mer-
ciful. HE will not keep His anger
forever
Although God may be justified III