Praising God for His Sovereignty: Insight & Encouragement from Psalm 33

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Psalm 33

33 Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous!
Praise befits the upright.
²    Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre;
make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!
³    Sing to him a new song;
play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts. (ESV)

1. We should give and to the Lord.

⁴     For the word of the Lord is upright,
and all his work is done in faithfulness.
⁵    He loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord. (ESV)

2. We should praise God because of his character as revealed in his , his , his holiness, & his .

⁶     By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
⁷    He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap;
he puts the deeps in storehouses.
⁸    Let all the earth fear the Lord;
let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
⁹    For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm. (ESV)

3. We should praise God and him because of his sovereignty over all . 

¹⁰    The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
¹¹    The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
the plans of his heart to all generations.
¹²    Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!
¹³    The Lord looks down from heaven;
he sees all the children of man;
¹⁴    from where he sits enthroned he looks out
on all the inhabitants of the earth,
¹⁵    he who fashions the hearts of them all
and observes all their deeds.
¹⁶    The king is not saved by his great army;
a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
¹⁷    The war horse is a false hope for salvation,
and by its great might it cannot rescue. (ESV)

4. We should praise God because of his sovereignty in the affairs of – he sees it all, he knows it all, and his purposes will be accomplished!

Writing to those who had been “born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead” (1 Peter 1:3b, ESV), the Apostle Peter wrote:

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. ¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (1 Peter 2:8-10, ESV)

¹⁸    Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his steadfast love,
¹⁹    that he may deliver their soul from death
and keep them alive in famine.
²⁰    Our soul waits for the Lord;
he is our help and our shield.
²¹    For our heart is glad in him,
because we trust in his holy name.
²²    Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
even as we hope in you. (ESV)

5. We should praise God because of his sovereign provision and special for his people.