“Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens!” (1). The psalmist exhorts us to praise the Creator who rules and reigns from His holy heaven. But, instead of remaining distant, He came to His own rebellious creation and intervened with “acts of power” for our deliverance. This God of “surpassing greatness” deserves to be praised with cymbals and harps, trumpets and dancing. 

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord” (6). Our natural response to the Giver of Life is to offer songs of praise, to recount His acts of power, and to put our own lives into His hands as our “true and proper worship” (Rom 12:1).