Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Appropriate and becoming!

Psalm 33:1b - Praise befits the upright. (ESV)

Befits suggests appropriate and pleasingly suitable. Nothing surprising there. Except, I would expect the verse to indicate that praise is appropriate and suitable for God. And yet, even as praise in becoming and befitting for God, it is similarly, but to a lesser degree, proper and becoming for the righteous(as they praise God) as well. And isn't that what God is like? Despite the fact that it is good and right to praise the all-powerful, all-loving, and most-glorious being in the universe, He turns it around and says "It looks good on you when you praise Me, too!" He takes His sinful creatures and morphs us into the "aroma of Christ"(2 Corinthians 2:15). Amazing!

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