Lose Count

 

Seven times a day

     I praise You.....

     Psalm 119. 164

(What do we do 

     seven times a day?

Complain? Criticize?

Cast judgement on others?

Justify our actions?

Or praise ourselves?

Seven was considered

   a number of completion

   in the ancient world.

How differently would we

      see God

  or view our circumstances

if we praised God

          seven times a day?

Circumstances

          --or that other person--

 may or may not change,

    but we do.

Lose count.

How much praise is enough?

Just a little bit more.)

O LORD,

May we lose track

   of our praising,

not just for

   favorable circumstances,

but praising You.

You are doing far more

    than we can grasp.

You are far greater

   than we can imagine.

Please guide us

  through praising You

to a new way of seeing,

to a different passage,

to fresh eyes

    and a transformed heart.

Praising You

  gets all over everything.