Start with Your Heart

Praise the Lord.
I will extol the Lord with all my heart
in the council of the upright and in the assembly
Psalm 110:1 (NIV)

When the psalmist says: I will extol the Lord with all my heart, what he is saying is that he will praise the Lord highly and lift Him up with all that is within his entire being. 

Extol:

1. (v. t.) To praise highly; to lift up; to elevate; as to extol one’s virtues.

2. (v. t.) To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person.

That’s what the psalmist says.  Can you echo the same excitement when it comes to giving God praise? When you praise Him, do you lift up His name with joy and thanksgiving or is it some half-hearted, “just because I made it to church today” thing that you got going on? Think over what God has brought you through and out of over the days since you were last in the assembly of the saints of God.  Take a long hard look at the things that God disallowed and prevented in your life as well as the favor that God allowed you to be shown among men and women of this world.  God doesn’t want our praise from our lips alone.  He wants our hearts.  He want us to put our all into praising Him.  When you make it to the house of the Lord this weekend, get into praising Him with all that you have for all that He has done.  Start with your heart, and then move from there.