He is your praise

He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen. – Deuteronomy 10v21

Israel might be tempted to think they were pretty special. After all the difficulties they had indeed survived as a nation and made it to the Promised Land. Say what you will, they had made it through all the challenges.

We can be tempted to do the same thing. When we get through a difficult time or situation we might think we are pretty special.. We survived. We did it. We made it. Others might have fallen by the wayside, but we stuck it out. We are the survivors.

Wrong. Neither us nor Israel have anything to brag about. We are not our praise, only He is our praise. We are not our own little gods who can accomplish anything. He is our God. We don’t accomplish any great and awesome things. Only He can do these things.

God works in spite of us. Anything that is accomplished in our lives is because He does it through us despite our sin and stubbornness and rebellion and stiff-neckedness and pride and arrogance and self-centredness.

There is nothing to praise in us. He is our praise!