Psalms 145

Psalms 145THEME: Praise for what God is and for what He doesThis is the last psalm that mentions David as the author. He may have written some of the psalms that do not name an author, but we cannot be sure. This psalm is an acrostic, which means that each verse begins with one of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Immediately we run into a problem which the critics have latched ontothere are twenty-two Hebrew letters and only twenty-one verses in this psalm. The psalm begins with Aleph, the first letter of the alphabet, and ends with Tau, the final letter in the Hebrew alphabet; the missing letter is Nun. Some critics say that Nun was left out by some transcriber. I don’t think that is the case at all. I believe it was left out for a very definite reason. From Psalms 145 to 150 we find that every one of them is a hallelujah psalm.

It is an increasing crescendo. Why would one verse be left out of Psalm 145? I think it speaks of the fact that our praise is imperfect. I like what F.W. Grant has written relative to the omission of this one letter: “I cannot but conclude that the gap is meant to remind us that in fact the fullness of praise is not complete without other voices, which are not found here, and that these missing voices are those of the Church and the heavenly saints in general.” You don’t get all of the hallelujahs until you get to the nineteenth chapter of Revelation: “And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God …. And again they said, Alleluia.

And her smoke rose up for ever and ever …. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth” (Rev_19:1, Rev_19:3, Rev_19:6). There is the missing hallelujah. The praise in this Psalms 145 is not quite completenor is it in any of the psalms. At the occasion of the birth of Jesus, the angels said, “Glory to God in the highest …” (Luk_2:14). Why?

Because Jesus was born in Bethlehem and there would be peace. But there hasn’t been peace. We have never been able to sing the Hallelujah chorus perfectly yet. But there is coming a day when Christ will return to this earth. The day that He comes forth will be a great day, and then the Hallelujah chorus will be sung correctly and completely.

Psalms 145:1

“Every day will I bless thee"this is not for only one day in the week when we go to church but for every day. There are days when we don’t feel like blessing Him. We sometimes sing, “We praise Him for all that is past, and trust Him for all that is to come.” We can change that around and sing, “We trust Him for all that is past and praise Him for all that is to come.” This is a marvelous psalm of praise!

Psalms 145:8

We have a kind God. David had experienced the kindness of God, and it motivated him to show the same kindness of God to others.

Psalms 145:17

Whoever you are and wherever you are, if you mean business with God, you can come into His presence through Christ. “The LORD is nigh [He is near] unto all them that call upon him.” There are many folk who are stiff-arming God. That is one reason they go through a church ritualthey are escaping a personal confrontation with Him. One of the great doctrines that the Reformation brought back to us was the doctrine of the “priesthood of believers.” If you have trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior, you have direct access to God. If you are unsaved, God invites you to come to Him for salvation. God is available.