Psalm 135 The Lord is good!

Psalm for Today = 135:3-4
³ Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;
    sing to his name, for it is pleasant!
⁴ For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself,
    Israel as his own possession.

Comments:

Praise is to worshipfully declare what is true about God and honor him for it. 

Thanksgiving is to gratefully declare what God has done for you. 

They are often as hard to separate as two sides of the same coin. What attributes of the Lord do we see mentioned here in this brief passage? 

The psalmist says that He is good and that his name/character is pleasant, which sounds familiar to readers of this blog. Just a couple of days ago, my post on Psalm 133 was entitled, “Good and Pleasant” as a description of brothers dwelling in unity. So we see in Psalm 135 that God is described using these same two words. It is as if when we dwell together in unity that God is there in our midst. This passage reminds me of two others: 

First, it reminds me of Matthew 18:19-20,

 “Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask,

                     it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

Second, it reminds me of the commission that Jesus placed upon the Gadarene man who had been delivered from a legion of demons, telling him that he should go home and tell everyone the great/good things that God had done for him.

·         Mark 5:19 “Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He has had compassion on you.”

·         Luke 8:39 “Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you.” And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.

These passages are consistent with Psalm 135:4. God is good and pleasant because he chooses people to be his own!

Questions:

What is good and pleasant about the Lord? Take time to list at least five attributes.

What are the good things that God has done for us? Take time to pray and ask God to give you an opportunity to tell someone today about the great things that God has done for you!