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Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord: he is their help and their shield.
The Lord hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great” (Psalm 115: 11-13).
Psalm 115 begins with declaring God should receive glory for His mercy and for the sake of truth, which He upholds. The psalmist then considers the heathen and asks, ‘Where is there God?’ and proceeds to call out the the gods of the heathens, which are made of man made materials. The heathen gods are fashioned in the image of man with mouths and hands and feet, but they cannot speak or feel or walk. They are empty, the men that make them are like them. The God of Heaven was not made but is the Maker of all things; He was not formed by man but formed man. And for this reason, the psalmist pleads for God’s followers to trust Him, to remember all He has done for His followers.
Matthew Henry notes, this psalm teaches us to “to give glory”. Henry encourages the church to “place her confidence in God, and triumph in doing so; and with such a holy triumph we ought to sing this psalm” (Henry 548).
Works Cited
Henry, Matthew. “Psalm 115.” Matthew Henry’s Commentary On the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition. Volume 3, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., March 1996.
Holy Bible: Giant Print with Study Aids. Dugan Publishers, Inc., 1984.
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