Originally posted: 03/05/2019

“Who is like You among the gods, O Lord?
Who is like You, majestic in holiness,
Awesome in praises, working wonders?” (15:11).

Awesome: extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear.

Praises: the expression of approval or admiration for someone or something.

The Song of Moses is consumed with only One. Only One inspires. Only One is admired and feared. Nothing regarding the failings of the people is revisited. Only the recounting of His wonders, His holiness, His power, and His presence are in view; and a song of praise erupts to Him Who Is Awesome in Praises.

Consider Him Who Is Awesome in Praises

• He Is Awesome in Praises: He is highly exalted.
• He Is Awesome in Praises: He is our strength and our song.
• He Is Awesome in Praises: He has become our salvation.
• He Is Awesome in Praises: He is our God.
• He Is Awesome in Praises: He is a warrior.
• He Is Awesome in Praises: He is majestic in power.
• He Is Awesome in Praises: He shatters the enemy.
• He Is Awesome in Praises: He overthrows those who rise up against Him.
• He Is Awesome in Praises: He is majestic in holiness, working wonders.
• He Is Awesome in Praises: He leads the people He has redeemed.
• He Is Awesome in Praises: He makes the peoples tremble.
• He Is Awesome in Praises: He plants us in the place of His presence.
• He Is Awesome in Praises: He invites us to dwell in His sanctuary.
• He is Awesome in Praises: He will reign forever and ever.
• He is Awesome in Praises: He is highly exalted.

How do we respond to Him Who Is Awesome in Praises?

Praises magnify Him, not because He is deficient and in need of man’s validation. It is our finite minds desperately in need of expansion, to be stretched beyond the obstacles, challenges, fears, and pain; to look up, away from self, to Him Who Is Awesome in Praises.

• Let us intentionally expand our thoughts to daily praise Him.
  • Praise the Lord!
    For it is good to sing praises to our God;
    For it is pleasant and praise is becoming, (Psalm 147:1).
  • It is good to give thanks to the Lord
    And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;
    ² To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning
    And Your faithfulness by night,
    ³ With the ten-stringed lute and with the harp,
    With resounding music upon the lyre.
    ⁴ For You, O Lord, have made me glad by what You have done,
    I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands, (Psalm 92:1-4).

The truth is, testing often follows the mountaintops.

There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them, (15:25).

• When faced with trials, we can either sink into the quicksand of grumbling, or we can rise above the obstacles, challenges, fears, and pain by looking up to Him Who Is Awesome in Praises. Oh, that we would choose to remember and recount His wonders with thanksgiving and praise.
  • I shall remember the deeds of the Lord;
    Surely I will remember Your wonders of old.
    ¹² I will meditate on all Your work
    And muse on Your deeds, (Psalm 77:11-12).
  • Oh give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name;
    Make known His deeds among the peoples.
    ² Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;
    Speak of all His wonders.
    ³ Glory in His holy name;
    Let the heart of those who seek the Lord be glad, (Psalm 105:1-3).

Oh, that we would daily develop the practice of intentional praise as we choose to think about Him Who Is Awesome in Praises!

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things, (Philippians 4:8 NIV)

Praise equips us for the valleys and lifts us to the place of a praise perspective; the privileged place where He has planted us to live in the true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, and excellent presence of Him Who Is Awesome in Praises.

“You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance,
The place, O Lord, which You have made for Your dwelling,
The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.
¹⁸ “The Lord shall reign forever and ever,” (15:17-18).

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