284 Sunday, October 11, 2009

284 Psalms 148 - 150; Matthew 12.22 - 12.50

If you have not caught on as of yet the last few Psalms are praise crazy! We know people who go overboard as fans, or go all out for a particular candidate, but can a person go overboard in their praise of God? The answer is never, no way, it can't happen. Perhaps there may be a person who is out touch with social graces and may praise God in a situation that is deemed a time for mourning. The Bible tells us to mourn with those who mourn and to rejoice with those who rejoice. We can praise God for what He has done and for who He is. We will be doing this for all eternity. Make it your practice to have a daily praise time. When you praise the Lord you are automatically refocusing your eyes to things above.

We need discernment in order to live a life fully committed to the Lord. People were accusing Jesus of working with the devil in order to heal people and to deliver people. This is why Jesus stuck this verse in the middle of the conversation, Matthew 12:33 (MSG)
33 "If you grow a healthy tree, you'll pick healthy fruit. If you grow a diseased tree, you'll pick worm-eaten fruit. The fruit tells you about the tree.

We shall know them by their fruits. We must be careful not to just sit around and become fruit inspectors. Christ gave us this insight so we can have some idea where a movement or an individual is coming from. In the mean time, we must be sure that by God's grace we produce good fruit.