My mouth brims with praise!

Let’s visit Psalm 71:8 again: 

"My mouth is filled with your praise,
   declaring your splendor all day long." (NIV)

Commenting on this verse, Charles Spurgeon wrote:  “What a blessed mouthful!  A man never grows nauseated through the flavor of it be all day in his mouth.  God’s bread is always in our mouth, so should his praise be.  He fills us with good; let us be also filled with gratitude.  This would leave no room for murmuring or backbiting; therefore, may we well join with holy David in this sacred wish.”

“What a blessed mouthful! To that I say, “Amen!” or (Let it be!”)  

Listen to how The Message paraphrases Psalm 71:1-8:

I run for dear life to God, I'll never live to regret it.
   Do what you do so well:
      get me out of this mess and up on my feet.
   Put your ear to the ground and listen,
      give me space for salvation.
   Be a guest room where I can retreat;
      you said your door was always open!
   You're my salvation—my vast, granite fortress.

 ^4-7 My God, free me from the grip of Wicked,
      from the clutch of Bad and Bully.
   You keep me going when times are tough—
      my bedrock, God, since my childhood.
   I've hung on you from the day of my birth,
      the day you took me from the cradle;
      I'll never run out of praise.
   Many gasp in alarm when they see me,
      but you take me in stride.
 ⁸ Just as each day brims with your beauty,
      my mouth brims with praise.

  

Look at Verse 8 again:  “Just as each day brims with your (God’s) beauty,  My mouth brims with praise.”

If we will just STOP and think about what God has done for us!  How He gives us breath each day!  Can we not use that breath to praise Him?  As you re-read Psalm 71:1-8 (above), think of all God has done for us…such as “You keep me going when times are tough—my bedrock, God, since my childhood.”

Then, think of what Jesus has done for us.

I’d like for you to click on this link and join me in thanking God for what He did in sending His Son Jesus to the earth.  You will want to do what is sung from 3:29 on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brVIlXlJRkQ

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Kristian Stanfill singing “Jesus Paid It All (from Passion ’06)