Blessing God...

Scripture: Psalm 103:1-2 (ESV)

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

Devotional:

Bless the Lord…  We often asked to be blessed, we also ask for blessings for others.  But what does it mean to bless the Lord? 

Let us start by translating Bless from Hebrew.  According to the site Ancient-Hebrew.org the verb barak means to neal.  When it is written in the piel form it means to show respect.  Berakhah means a gift or present. (http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/vocabulary_definitions_bless.html)  Looking up bless the Lord on Google retrieves dozens of sites to give us the answer. 

Pause a moment to think about what you think bless the Lord means…  Before looking anything up I thought it simply meant to praise and honor God.  After looking it up, I realized I needed to add a few more words to my definition.

What does it mean to bless the Lord?  To honor Him, to praise and worship Him.  Adding to this we honor God not only with words but also with the attitude of our hearts.  Just to say it is just lip service and has no meaning.  It is what is in our hearts and attitude is what matters.  DesiringGod.org says this.  “It means to speak well of his greatness and goodness — and really mean it from the depths of your soul.” (https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/what-it-means-to-bless-the-lord)

Bless God with the attitude of your heart, with our words, by praising and worshiping Him.  Join me in raising the level in which we “Bless the Lord…”