What are you doing today?

Psalm 104 tells about God's sovereignty over creation. He sets the boundaries for the oceans, controls the food chain, causes the sun to rise and set and provides the ingredients for man's food.

Everywhere we look, there is evidence of God's sovereignty and His mercy. Not only is He in control of creation, His control shows His mercy.

He could let the waters flood the earth as in the days of Noah.

he could cause earthquakes and volcanoes to wipe out humanity.

But He doesn't He chooses to control the universe so that we can continue to live.

As long as we are still alive, God has a purpose for our lives.

So what should we do about that?

The psalmist's response is to praise God.

"I will sing to the LORD all my life;
I will sing praise to my God while I live.
May my meditation be pleasing to Him;
I will rejoice in the LORD" (v 33-34).

Every day and all day, we should be praising God.

Every day and all day, we should be thinking God-thoughts.

It's a choice to be made every day and all day.

I can choose to complain about my situation, or I can choose to praise God who is lovingly controlling those events.

I can choose to complain about the bad things in life, or I can choose to praise God who is restraining evil and disaster - it could be a lot worse!

God is in control, doing what is best for me, so there really is no better thing for me to do than to praise Him.

Every day.

All day.