Hallelujah | Psalm 150
Did you know that the Sun does not revolve around the earth? Historically, most people for centuries believed that the sun and everything else revolved around the earth. It made sense because every day and night the sun, moon, and celestial bodies passed in front of us for our enjoyment. But in 1543, Nicholas Copernicus turned the astronomical word upside down when he discovered the groundbreaking truth about our solar system: the earth, as well as all the other planets, revolves around the sun. It turns out, that that is a good thing because the earth does not have the gravitas to keep all the other planets in orbit, but the Sun does. Pre-Copernican astronomy is a pretty good metaphor for humanity. We live as though everything else revolves around us. Our primary concern with whatever comes into our lives is how it affects us. If our lives were a movie with a main character, that main character would be us. The problem is, like the earth, our lives don’t work when we make ourselves the center of our own little universe. Even if God is one of our orbiting planets, we do not have what it takes to hold it together, but He does. Therefore, if we are going to make it, then He must be the center of our lives and must be the One that we live for and worship rather than ourselves.
Psalm 1 taught us that the blessed person is the one who meditates on the Word of God, day and night. Psalm 150 is the grand finale and points us to the worship of God, day and night. There are 13 commands in the 6 verses of the Psalm and the main point is to: praise the Lord. Both Psalm 1 and 150 instruct God’s people to be people of the Word and Worship. Psalm 150 commands us to praise the LORD regardless of where we are and what we are going through, with what we have and all that we are, for who He is and what He has done.