It is something we all do and we do it every day. In one way or another, we communicate with those around us. We may know them or we may not. But we communicate, either with words or body language or we might simply refuse to acknowledge someone we encounter and in do so we are communicating to them.
One of the greatest gifts God has provided to man is the ability to communicate with the Holy One Himself. Oh, the blessing of coming into His presence in the troubled night or maybe the fearful day and find that God is waiting to hear from us! Or maybe it is the confidence to know that His ear is bowed low to our voice when we have a pressing need that will take divine power to have that need met. Maybe, it is in that desperate hour when a loved one is deathly sick and we are able to plead with our Maker and ask for healing and time and time again we are comforted by His mighty hand. Let’s not forget those times when He speaks His love to us and we are comforted and lifted up by His peace that He speaks to our hearts when we encounter Him in that unsuspecting moment. All of these examples of communicating with God are personal to me because I have exercised myself in each of these on many occasions. I believe we all could say that we have found ourselves in these thoughts and confess that we, too, have communicated to our Lord and have found Him faithful.
But there is another act of communicating with God that we should concentrate on more often and that is in the act of praising Him. It goes beyond being thankful or confident in Him hearing us. It is more than daily prayer for His guidance and following His will. It is more than that. It is praising Him because of who He is. David, in Psalm 150, devotes that last Psalm in its short six verses to a call to remembrance of God’s people to not forget in our communicating with God to praise Him. “Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him the stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals? Praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.” (Psalm 150:1-6). In these verses we are shown where we should praise Him…v. 1; why we should praise Him…v. 2; how we are to praise Him…v. 3-5; and finally, who should praise Him…v. 6.
When you have the opportunity to utilize that wonderful gift God has provided you to communicate with Him again, why not enter His presence with PRAISE! He is worthy.

Until then…
Bro. Glenn