Blessed be YOUR Name!

When can people thank God? Today I think about this question a little bit.

Let's take it from the other way around, when will people not praise God? What comes to your mind? As part of human nature, when people are successful and when everything goes so smoothly, people may forget God very often because there is no need of God there. We may still sometimes be thankful to God about what things he had done, but most time it is not. So, maybe during the difficult, we will praise God? Is this true? Not necessary! When I was in trouble, or when I was waiting for something, most of the time I will complain to God saying when will you help me out? I may ask Him for help sometimes, but for many times, I will have no patience.

So, what time do we praise the Lord? Maybe during the time period when things change from bad to good. I have experienced that strong feeling before. I cannot express how happy I was by that time. My whole heart will devote to Him totally.

If it is so, why not praise Him during time when we are good and when we are waiting for something? I start to understand a little bit about what it means to praise the Lord always. Does my heart always desires Him more than others around me? Am I still looking something higher than Him? I have to ask me this question again and again.

I read some verses from Job. I like some of the verses from the book, which may explain my whole point

"Naked I came from my mother's womb,
and naked I will depart.
The LORD gave and the LORD has takend away;
may the name of the LORD be praised.

In all this, Job did not sin by charging GOd with wrongdoing.
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-- Job 1:21-22

"Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?

In all this, Job did not sin in what he said."
-- Job 2:10

"I know that you can do all things;
no plan of yours can be thwarted.
You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?'
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.

"You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.'
My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."
-- Job 42:1-6

Oh, LORD! HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME!