We should praise Him.

If you desire to praise Him, then live what you express. Live good lives, and you yourselves will be praise.--St. Augustine

 

Why do we not praise Him more if we call ourselves His? There are many reasons we fall in to grumbling while in the desert. We are not very different from the children of Israel in their wandering. They had good days and bad. God was not only setting them free from the Egyptians, He was showing them a new way to live. They had a pillar of cloud and fire to lead them. They had manna from heaven to feed them. Water from the rock. They had the Passover to remember and celebrate their freedom. They were given priests to shepherd them. They were given the law to guide them and set them apart.... Now consider what we have and wonder with me why we do not praise... We have more than a pillar of cloud and fire, we have the grace of Jesus Christ to lead us to the promised land, which is Christ Himself! We have His Body and Blood, come down from Heaven, our True Food and True Drink, and, our eternal celebration of being freed from sin! We have the waters of baptism, the sacrament that flowed from His side on the cross to bring us into His Kingdom and birth us anew! We have the Eucharist to remember Him daily as we work out our salvation with fear and trembling!  We have the Church to bring us the Sacraments and guide us in the law of grace! We should praise Him.

 

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