Psalm 150--Let Everything Praise the LORD

Psalm 150
English Standard Version

Let Everything Praise the LORD
150 Praise the LORD!
Praise God in his sanctuary;
    praise him in his mighty heavens!
2 Praise him for his mighty deeds;
    praise him according to his excellent greatness!

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3 Praise him with trumpet sound;
    praise him with lute and harp!
4 Praise him with tambourine and dance;
    praise him with strings and pipe!
5 Praise him with sounding cymbals;
    praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD!

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This is our last day in The Psalms as Psalm 150 is the final psalm in this book.  There are other songs throughout the Bible, both in the Old Testament and New Testament, but this ends the official "song book" of the nation of Israel.  It was their hymnal when they came to worship and it was the songs they sang when they were walking to the Tabernacle or Temple to worship, and they were the songs they taught to their children at home to teach them about life and God and salvation.  So many of the psalms looked forward to a king that was better than David and could provide real and lasting salvation for HIs people.  We know today that King is King Jesus--the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and the Messiah of the LORD's people.

So, it is fitting that Psalm 150 ends the book of psalms with a call to worship.  It will sound very familiar to you if you know the hymn, "Praise Him, Praise Him, Jesus our Blessed Redeemer."  We are to praise Him when we go to church, and the sun, moon and starts and the birds of the heavens are all to join in our praise.  The earth and the sea and all that is in them are to join in the LORD's praise and to tell everyone of His excellent greatness!  We are to sing because of who He is and what He has done (His character, majesty, and His wonderful deeds).

We should praise Him with our voices and with all kinds of instruments--wind instruments, percussion instruments, and stringed instruments.  We should dance before Him with gladness, even if people think that we are acting foolish in doing so--I will be labeled a fool for God and for Christ if people mock me for my worship of Him (that does not mean that our "worship" should actually be foolish and distract people from the message of the gospel that we are trying to share).  Let everyone and everything that has breath (the breath that the Spirit breathed into us to give us life in Genesis 1 and 2), praise the LORD!  Yes, praise the LORD!