{"id":533,"date":"2008-03-24T04:49:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T13:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=533"},"modified":"2008-03-24T04:55:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T13:55:04","slug":"oh-thats-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/oh-thats-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, That’s Why!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
Reading:<\/font>
\nPsalm 135<\/font>
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Why should I praise the Lord?<\/p>\n

That’s a question I don’t ask<\/b>.<\/p>\n

But that doesn’t mean I don’t live<\/b> it way, way to often. (That’s another way of saying that I don’t praise the Lord much.)<\/p>\n

When my church isn’t what it should be and my family isn’t what it should be and I’m not what I should be, for what should I praise the Lord?<\/p>\n

When I’m far behind in my work and we have water in our basement and both of our vehicles need fixing, for what should I praise the Lord?<\/p>\n

When I’m discouraged and suspicious and hurt and confused and lonely and rejected, for what should I praise the Lord?<\/p>\n

When my vision has dried up and my goals have moved beyond my reach and my . . . .<\/p>\n

OK. That’s enough of that. You get the idea by now.<\/p>\n

Why should<\/b> I praise the Lord?<\/p>\n

“Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant”<\/font><\/b> (3).<\/p>\n

That makes sense!<\/p>\n

(Doesn’t it?)<\/p>\n

\"[Whatsoever<\/a>
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from Psalm 135:6<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

A little bit more from Psalm 135:<\/b> What Servants Do<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading: Psalm 135 Why should I praise the Lord? That’s a question I don’t ask. But that doesn’t mean I don’t live it way, way to often. (That’s another way of saying that I don’t praise the Lord much.) When my church isn’t what it should be and my family isn’t what it should be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-psalms","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-8B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}