4 One generation will commend your works to another; they will tell of your mighty acts.5 They will speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty, and I will meditate on your wonderful works. (Psalm 145)

(vv. 4-5) - How important it is to share with our children how the Lord has worked in our lives even while we were growing up.  (See vs. 12; Isa. 38:19; Deut. 11:18-21).  See that child with wide eyes of wonder hearing the stories of God’s faithfulness in answered prayer, deliverance from troubles, stumping the doctors, financial needs being met, etc.

Meditate/meditation occurs 19 times in Psalms.  I have been blessed so many times as I take a passage and turn it over in my mind (with no external distractions) and consider its application in my life.  It becomes a means for the Spirit to speak to my heart. In our current passage, one example of meditation is “on the glorious splendor of your majesty” (v. 5).

The example I think of when I consider the glorious splendor of God’s majesty is what Isaiah (Isa. 6:1-6) and what John (Rev.4).  Words cannot describe the full splendor of it all.  Yet it is helpful for us to try.

The Psalmist also meditated continually on God’s wondrous works.  These could be in general through nature, history or humanity.  They could also be in his own personal life.  Just remembering and thinking back over how God has worked in our lives.  How he worked in and through a particular event in history or in His creation.

So, what are the benefits of this meditation in our lives?  First, it should spawn the same response as it did Isaiah.   “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”  It is good to see my sinfulness; my helplessness and the condition of my culture!  Secondly, I recognize the One who is there and delights to help me. To Him I turn for forgiveness and deliverance.  When I meditate on His majesty and His works, my God becomes larger than any problem I have in my life!