Psalm 111

Psalm 111:1a "Praise the Lord."

This Psalm is an acrostic poem, meaning that each of the lines begin with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Praise the Lord in the Hebrew is literally the word Hallelujah or Hallelu Yah (like in Yahweh) as it would be transliterated. Psalms 111-118 are all anonymous and are as a group called the Hallelujah Psalms because they are so uplifting and optimistic. Good stuff for us in these days of negativity, suspicion and speculation. Seems like lots of things around us are on a downer and eight devotionals in a row of positive, uplifting encouragement probably won't hurt.

Did you know that everything that God does is good? Has to be, because He is good. He can't do wrong or bad. He doesn't fail and He always succeeds at everything. Even His judging is righteous and perfect. This truth about Him is why we can always praise Him. He always deserves it never ceases to appreciate it and is the source of everything praiseworthy. Acrostics are good tools to force us to think of what we already know. Sometimes a system or a style of writing can bring something fresh out of us. Here is my acrostic of the English alphabet of things to praise God for today. I have left out a few letters, you can fill them in, try it, it isn't that hard.

A	Awesome
B	Beautiful	N	Noble
C	__________	O	Omnipotent
D	Dynamic	P	Perfect
E	Everything	Q	Quintessential
F	First	R	Royal
G	Glorious	S	__________
H	__________	T	Tremendous
I	Incredible	U	Undeniable
J	Joyful	V	Victorious
K	Kind	W	__________
L	Loving	X	__________ (extra credit here)
M	Majestic	Y	Yahweh
		Z	Zealous

I hope this brought fresh ideas about God and who He is to you.

Hallelujah!! Pastor Fred

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