A doctor, busy in his study, noticed his small son enter. He put his hand in his pocket, drew out a coin and offered it to the boy. "I don't want it," the lad said. After a few moments the dad offered him a candy bar, but this, too, was refused. A little impatiently, the father asked, "What do you want?" The son replied, "I don't want anything. I only wanted to be with you."
Many of the psalms express this sentiment. In Psalms, this "Hymnbook of Humanity," there is some prayer but there is much more praise. Most appropriately, the last five psalms are known as "The Hallelujah Psalms" because of their joyous expressions. Each of them begins and ends with, "Praise ye the Lord."
Throughout these days, we have been talking about prayer. However, we have not thoroughly learned how to pray without also learning how to praise (Psalm 146). These "Hallelujah Psalms" will reveal some clues about giving thanks. Today, may we thank Him simply because He is with us. Like the little boy, we might not want anything special--we just want to know His nearness and feel His Presence. The psalmist wisely says: "Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help."
“How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the LORD his God,”
Psalms 146:5 NASB
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