Psalm 33:1-12

Psalm 33:1-12 
Common English Bible (CEB)

  All you who are righteous, shout joyfully to the Lord! It’s right for those who do right to praise God. 2 Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre! Sing praises to him with the ten-stringed harp! 3 Sing to him a new song! Play your best with joyful shouts!
  4 Because the Lord’s word is right, his every act is done in good faith. 5 He loves righteousness and justice; the Lord’s faithful love fills the whole earth. 6 The skies were made by the Lord’s word, all their starry multitude by the breath of his mouth. 7 He gathered the ocean waters into a heap; he put the deep seas into storerooms.
  8 All the earth honors the Lord; all the earth’s inhabitants stand in awe of him. 9 Because when he spoke, it happened! When he commanded, there it was!
  10 The Lord overrules what the nations plan; he frustrates what the peoples intend to do. 11 But the Lord’s plan stands forever; what he intends to do lasts from one generation to the next. 12 The nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom God has chosen as his possession, is truly happy!

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  I do some good things.  I do some not-so-good things, too.  I try to do more good than bad, and I think I, overall, do a pretty good job in that effort.  But I'm not perfect.
  Verse 4 here says that God's every act is done in good faith.  Every single act is good, and it's faithful to who God is.  It's rooted in love and compassion and mercy and grace, and it's all done in hopes of bringing people to God.  Every.  Single.  Act.
  Such a God should cause us to praise him.  A God who does everything for our ultimate good is worthy of our praise, and if we keep him as our Lord, we will truly be ultimately happy.  It may mean we have to sacrifice some things in the short-term, but true happiness is found only in the good who does everything in good faith.

  May you lean into the promises of God today.