"ALL You Have Made WILL Praise You" Psalm 145

The scripture I want to bring to you this morning is Psalm 145. As I often do, I will substitute the more accurate translation of words such as the inaccurate LORD for the accurate translation of God's personal "name" (nature/character/essence) that He gave to Moses - YHWH: I AM ALWAYS AM - and subsequently combined with other modifiers to express various aspects of His nature (Ex: I AM ALWAYS AM  Healer - YHWH Rapha). Although YHWH occurs over 5,000 times in the Old Testament, it is consistently replaced with the capitalized word, LORD, which is not its translation in the Hebrew.  In a few translations the word Jehovah is substituted.  But this is just a poor attempt in English to sound similar to the Hebrew word, but, again, is not the translation and therefore, omits the original meaning given by God.

Psalm 145

¹ I will exalt you, my God the King;
    I will praise your name (nature/character/essence) for ever and ever.
² Every day I will praise you
    and extol your name (nature/character/essence) for ever and ever.

³ Great is the I AM Always AM and most worthy of praise;
    his greatness no one can fathom.
⁴ One generation commends your works to another;
    they tell of your mighty acts.
⁵ They speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty—
    and I will meditate on your wonderful works.
⁶ They tell of the power of your awesome works—
    and I will proclaim your great deeds.
⁷ They celebrate your abundant goodness
    and joyfully sing of your righteousness.

⁸ The I AM Always AM is gracious and compassionate,
    slow to anger and rich in love.

⁹ The I AM Always AM is good to all;
    he has compassion on all he has made.
¹⁰ All your works praise you, I AM Always AM;
    your faithful people extol you.
¹¹ They tell of the glory of your kingdom
    and speak of your might,
¹² so that all people may know of your mighty acts
    and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
¹³ Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
    and your dominion endures through all generations.

The I AM Always AM is trustworthy in all he promises
    and faithful in all he does.
¹⁴ The I AM Always AM upholds all who fall
    and lifts up all who are bowed down.
¹⁵ The eyes of all look to you,
    and you give them their food at the proper time.
¹⁶ You open your hand
    and satisfy the desires of every living thing.

¹⁷ The I AM Always AM is righteous in all his ways
    and faithful in all he does.
¹⁸ The I AM Always AM is near to all who call on him,
    to all who call on him in truth.
¹⁹ He fulfills the desires of those who fear him;
    he hears their cry and saves them.
²⁰ The I AM Always AM watches over all who love him,
    but all the wicked he will destroy.

²¹ My mouth will speak in praise of the I AM Always AM.

    Let every creature praise his holy name (nature/character/essence)

    for ever and ever.

 

Since I find universal reconciliation and eternal life completely substantiated in the scriptures, some of the verses that are particularly dear to me are:

• ⁹ The I AM Always AM is good to all;
      he has compassion on all he has made. [Since everything including all men are His Handiwork - Isaiah 64:8 -  it is completely logical and just that He should have compassion on all that He has made.]
• ¹⁰ All your works praise you, I AM Always AM; [Since our judgments are earthbound and our perception of what is "good" and "bad" proceed from that, we do not generally comprehend that all works are ultimately His works but for HIS eternal purposes. Those things that we interpret as "bad" occurrences, we do not see as "praising" Him.  But again, it is the limitation of our understanding in not yet being able to comprehend that everything that occurs IS PRAISING HIM.] 
• ¹⁴ The I AM Always AM upholds all who fall
      and lifts up all who are bowed down. [Since He is the one who ordains everything for His ultimate purposes, of course it is His responsibility to uphold what He sovereignly ordained to fall and lift up all who He caused to be "bowed down".]
• ¹⁵ The eyes of all look to you,
      and you give them their food at the proper time. [Here "their food" is everything anything that He created needs to attain His ultimate loving, eternal purpose for it/them - that of existing with Him in fellowship and joy eternally.  The "proper time" is echoed in Ecclesiastes 3:2 " There is an appointed time for every purpose under heaven.]
• ¹⁶ You open your hand
      and satisfy the desires of every living thing. [The most basic desire of every living thing is to exist AND to exist in comfort and joy - in whatever way that being/entity experiences joy.  We may be surprised in eternity how algae, snails, and leaves experience "joy".  We certainly have the example in scripture of creation "praising", "singing" and the trees "clapping their hands".  How limited our imaginations here are of what eternal fellowship and communication will look like when it arrives.]

And as you see above, I have substituted the word "name" for its fuller Hebrew meaning of nature/character/essence.  Check out my blog article on the implications in both the Old and New Testament of the fuller meaning of the word "name" in the scriptures (2/17/17, 2/28/17


Still Rejoicing for ALL,
June

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