Why Praise God?

Praise the LORD from the heavens;

Praise Him in the heights!

Praise Him, all His angels;

Praise Him, all His hosts!

Praise Him, sun and moon;

Praise Him, all you stars of light!

Praise Him, you heavens of Heavens,

and you waters above the heavens!

Let them praise the name of the LORD,

for He commanded and they were created.

He also established them forever and ever;

He made a decree which shall not pass away.

Psalm 148:1–6

            God as stated by the above Scripture to have created and John writes the Logos who created: “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (John 1:3). This is an important matter for it is said by those two verses that there is a propriety that exists between both God and the Logos by saying one person is with another. But how? What agreement exists between the two? What is the love mediating between them? We can answer this question by noting that: “All things were made through Him,” and this accomplished by the love of each for the other, that love is the Holy Spirit. If you are asked: “Who has made all things? “ Your answer is simple: God! If it is asked: how? Through the Logos, the word, Jesus Christ. Why did God, the Logos create? Because God is Good! Through the Godhead, Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, all things were made through Him.

            God is worthy of all praise and of all adoration for by Him and by means of His Son Jesus Christ all things were made that was made. Look around and see the beauty of the things that were made, lift your eyes to the heavens and see the wonder of the universe displayed. The closest star some four light years away. Light travels 186,000 miles a second and there are 31,536,000 seconds in a year which makes this star to be 126,144,000 miles from earth and we can see it and those farther away. How big then is the universe? I don’t know1 How big is God? What will eternity be like if we have no time, no death, and could travel the universe? God has made those things that are visible and invisible. When we contemplate all this our desire is of wonder and God is exulted, His Son is exulted, and the Holy Spirit is exulted, for by God, the Godhead, the Trinity all things exist and all things exist for His pleasure and we too have great pleasure in what God has done. All things given to man a sense of wonder and God revealed to exist by those things that He created. Think on this: God spoke and with the talent of an artist through His Word, the Wisdom of God mighty and beautiful things were made, and again simply by His command. All angels, hosts, moon, sun, stars, and things that are therein give Him praise. Are you praising Him too? God spoke and there was light, He spoke and there was firmament, and the waters, and the birds of the air, the animals, and all herbs of the ground, the seed, and the fruit tree, all by His spoken word. These things made by His Word, the Logos, who is the Only Begotten Son of God. This by speaking although it was not by speaking with elemental sound or corporeal voice for God is a Spirit, but by that kind of speaking with which your soul, which He made in His own image, frames noiseless language whenever it will….

            “And the Word became flesh….” (John 1:14a). Men such as Cerinthus, a Gnostic and other such antichrists who has heard this conjunction: “and” for it returns us to verse one that the Logos, that which become flesh who was in the beginning, with God, and is God and that all things were made through Him, therefore the “and” refers us back to that first verse. Looking back into this antiquity of time and see the nobleness of God who came to live as man. The One who took on the flesh of man, to suffer as a man, to die as a man, so that His children would have the plague of sin that so encumbered them, keeping them far from Him, not only made all things, He saves His children. Are you one of His children? The word did not change into flesh, this is not what is to be considered, unless you believe that Jesus Christ is nothing more than another god as do the Mormons and others, even Jehovah Witnesses claim that Jesus Christ was a created being. To say that the Logos changed into flesh then you are speaking heresy and it removes faith. The word was not changed into flesh, but by assuming flesh he condescended to fleshly things. Therefore the Word, the Wisdom of God who as with God, who is God became flesh just as when you speak you can correctly say, “The word which was in my soul has become vocal.”

            Many see the visible things that exist and yet do not desire God, or, they have so construed a god due to the mysteriousness of the universe and those things created so that they have a god, but this is not a God who saves for salvation does not come by seeing created things: “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew god, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened” (Romans 1:20–21).

            May your eyes be opened to see not only the wonder of creation made by the Word, Jesus Christ. May this realization that God created you, and has come to give you eternal life. Enjoy what God has done and live for Him.

Oh, give things to the LORD,

            For He is good!

For His mercy endures forever.

                        Psalm 136:1

Lift your heart and soul to Him: Your Savior

Richard L. Crumb