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==Psalm 117:1-2==
<poem>
1Praise the Lord, all you nations!
Extol him, all you peoples!
2 For great is his steadfast love toward us,
and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
Praise the Lord!
</poem>

הַֽלְל֣וּ אֶת־יְ֭הוָה כָּל־גּוֹיִ֑ם שַׁ֝בְּח֗וּהוּ כָּל־הָאֻמִּֽים׃

כִּ֥י גָ֘בַ֤ר עָלֵ֨ינוּ׀ חַסְדּ֗וֹ וֶֽאֱמֶת־יְהוָ֥ה לְעוֹלָ֗ם הַֽלְלוּ־יָֽהּ׃

-Shortest Psalm
-Shortest chapter in the Bible

-It's about praise. We praise what we love. We can't help it. We want everyone else to love what we love.

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	That kind of love doesn't grow tired and fade with passing years, it doesn't cut and run when things get difficult, it doesn't even end when you draw your last breath and take leave of this life...God's love and faithfulness to us endure forever. Praise the Lord!		That kind of love doesn't grow tired and fade with passing years, it doesn't cut and run when things get difficult, it doesn't even end when you draw your last breath and take leave of this life...God's love and faithfulness to us endure forever. Praise the Lord!
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		+	That kind of love is not contingent upon your actions--whether you are good or bad, whether you are a success or a failure, whether you live up to the expectations of this world, or your family, or your boss, or your friends, or your neighbors. God's love and faithfulness to us are steadfast, when we deserve it most and when we deserve it least. Praise the Lord!
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		+	That kind of love is not even contingent on whether or not we praise the Lord, whether or not we "believe" in it, or whether or not we even accept or understand it. But I think that once we have contemplated, once we have perceived and experienced (even just a little) that kind of unconditional, unstoppable, unfathomable love...there's really only one way to respond. You know how. You know why. And I hope you leave here today knowing just how much God loves you. So everyone say it together with me now:
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		+	Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!

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-==Psalm 117:1-2 (Neal's translation)==
+==Psalm 117:1-2==
 <poem>
-Praise Yahweh, all you gentiles
+Praise the Lord, all you nations!
-Glorify him, all you gods!
-For great is his favor and
-Forever his truth endures
-Hallelujah!
-</poem>
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 Praise the Lord, all you nations!
      Extol him, all you peoples!
 For great is his steadfast love toward us,
      and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
 Praise the Lord!
 ==Psummer of Psalms - The Shortest Psalm==
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 I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. It is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not to be able to tell anyone how good he is; to come suddenly, at the turn of the road, upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a tin can in the ditch; to hear a good joke and find no one to share it with. . . .
-If it were possible for a created soul fully . . . to ‘appreciate’, that is to love and delight in, the worthiest object of all, and simultaneously at every moment to give this delight perfect expression, then that soul would be in supreme beatitude. . . . To see what the doctrine really means, we must suppose ourselves to be in perfect love with God — drunk with, drowned in, dissolved by, that delight which, far from remaining pent up within ourselves as incommunicable, hence hardly tolerable, bliss, flows out from us incessantly again in effortless and perfect expression, our joy is no more separable from the praise in which it liberates and utters itself than the brightness a mirror receives is separable from the brightness it sheds. The Scottish catechism says that man’s chief end is ‘to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.’ But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him”
+If it were possible for a created soul fully . . . to ‘appreciate’, that is to love and delight in, the worthiest object of all, and simultaneously at every moment to give this delight perfect expression, then that soul would be in supreme beatitude. . . . To see what the doctrine really means, we must suppose ourselves to be in perfect love with God — drunk with, drowned in, dissolved by, that delight which, far from remaining pent up within ourselves as incommunicable, hence hardly tolerable, bliss, flows out from us incessantly again in effortless and perfect expression, our joy is no more separable from the praise in which it liberates and utters itself than the brightness a mirror receives is separable from the brightness it sheds. The Scottish catechism says that man’s chief end is ‘to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.’ But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.”
 If that was a little too dense, pastor and theologian John Piper puts it this way:  "The reason God seeks our praise is not because he won't be complete until he gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be happy until we give it."

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 Hallelujah!
 </poem>
 ==Psummer of Psalms - The Shortest Psalm==
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 The answer, according to the Westminster Catechism?  "The chief end of man is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever."
 In other words, it's not just the Bible:  According to several centuries of Presbyterian doctrine, we were made above all else, to praise God, and to take great enjoyment from doing so.
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--It's about praise.  We praise what we love.  We can't help it. We want everyone else to love what we love.
+But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honour. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise . . . The world rings with praise — lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favourite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favourite game — praise of weather, wines, dishes, actors, motors, horses, colleges, countries, historical personages, children, flowers, mountains, rare stamps, rare beetles, even sometimes politicians or scholars. . . . I had not noticed either that just as [people] spontaneously praise whatever they value, so they spontaneously urge us to join them in praising it: ‘Isn’t she lovely? Wasn’t it glorious? Don’t you think that magnificent?’ The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all [people] do when they speak of what they care about . . .
--John Piper:  "The reason God seeks our praise is not because he won't be complete until he gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be happy until we give it."
+I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. It is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not to be able to tell anyone how good he is; to come suddenly, at the turn of the road, upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a tin can in the ditch; to hear a good joke and find no one to share it with. . . .
--Again, Piper: "When God chose Abraham, the father of the nation of Israel, he said in Genesis 12:2-3, "I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." All the families of the earth - all the nations, all the peoples - will be blessed through Abraham."
+If it were possible for a created soul fully . . . to ‘appreciate’, that is to love and delight in, the worthiest object of all, and simultaneously at every moment to give this delight perfect expression, then that soul would be in supreme beatitude. . . . To see what the doctrine really means, we must suppose ourselves to be in perfect love with God — drunk with, drowned in, dissolved by, that delight which, far from remaining pent up within ourselves as incommunicable, hence hardly tolerable, bliss, flows out from us incessantly again in effortless and perfect expression, our joy is no more separable from the praise in which it liberates and utters itself than the brightness a mirror receives is separable from the brightness it sheds. The Scottish catechism says that man’s chief end is ‘to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.’ But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him”
--Great commission: God calls all of us to be either goers or senders.
+If that was a little too dense, pastor and theologian John Piper puts it this way:  "The reason God seeks our praise is not because he won't be complete until he gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be happy until we give it."

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 And that's fitting, because the act of Praising God should be at the heart of all our prayers, our worship, and even our existence as God's people.
 -It's about praise.  We praise what we love.  We can't help it. We want everyone else to love what we love.
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 -Great commission: God calls all of us to be either goers or senders.

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-==Psalm 117:1-2==
+==Psalm 117:1-2 (Neal's translation)==
 <poem>
-Praise the Lord, all you nations!
+Praise Yahweh, all you gentiles
-    Extol him, all you peoples!
+Glorify him, all you gods!
-For great is his steadfast love toward us,
+For great is his favor and
-    and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever.
+Forever his truth endures
-Praise the Lord!
+Hallelujah!
 </poem>
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 . EVERYTHING MEN KNOW ABOUT WOMEN
 . THE AMISH PHONE DIRECTORY
-. THE WALL I BUILT THAT MEXICO PAID FOR - by Donald J. Trump
+. THE WALL I BUILT THAT MEXICO PAID FOR - by President Donald J. Trump
 . TO ALL THE MEN I'VE LOVED BEFORE - by Ellen DeGeneres
 . HOW TO SUSTAIN A MUSICAL CAREER - by Art Garfunkel
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 </poem>

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 World's shortest books:
 . VIKING TABLE ETIQUETTE
 . OBEDIENCE TRAINING FOR CATS
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 . A GREENER, CLEANER WORLD AND HOW TO GET THERE - by Exxon Mobile
 . NEW MEXICO'S BEST AND SAFEST DRIVERS
+</poem>

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 -John Piper:  "The reason God seeks our praise is not because he won't be complete until he gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be happy until we give it."
 -The most famous of the questions (known to a great many Presbyterian children) is the first:
 Q. What is the chief end of man?
 A. Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

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	-It's about praise. We praise what we love. We can't help it. We want everyone else to love what we love.		-It's about praise. We praise what we love. We can't help it. We want everyone else to love what we love.
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		+	-John Piper: "The reason God seeks our praise is not because he won't be complete until he gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be happy until we give it."
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		+	-The most famous of the questions (known to a great many Presbyterian children) is the first:
		+	Q. What is the chief end of man?
		+	A. Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.