God’s Greatness Leads to Praise

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.. (Psalm 145:3)

It’s as if David’s song gets louder to seek to match the greatness of God. The word “great” is such an overused word today that can refer to anything from turkey on Thanksgiving to some obnoxious athlete. Others have taken this attribute and added it their own name: Alexander the Great, Catherine the Great, etc.

Do I need to say it? God alone is great! God’s greatness refers to him being large in all respects. He is immense, immeasurable, “unsearchable” and above all other gods. If you put the greatest minds of our earth’s history together with the most sophisticated and complex scientific equipment, they still couldn’t capture all God is. David’s song is well-thought out. His song is driven by God’s greatness.

Charles Spurgeon writes, “Songs should be founded upon searching; hymns composed without thought are of no worth, and tunes upon which no pains have been spent are beneath the dignity of divine adoration. Yet when we meditate most, and search most studiously, we shall still find ourselves surrounded with unknowable wonders, which will baffle all attempts to sing them worthily. The best adoration of the Unsearchable is to own him to be so, and close the eyes in reverence before the excessive light of his glory. Not all the minds of all the centuries shall suffice to search out the unsearchable riches of God: he is past finding out; and, therefore, his deserved praise is still above all that we can render to him.” (The Treasury of David)

God’s greatness – all of who He is – really drives our singing. It drives our praise.