146:1-2 While we live, we will use our time heart beats to praise the Lord. Deep, authentic love for God takes over our lives the more we listen to Him, learn from Him and submit to His will. Everything else comes secondary to our praise of the Lord.
146:3-4 The Psalmist reminds us to put our trust in God, not in a person or a thing. Not only because God is trustworthy but because those things cause harm rather than help. Only God has our best interests in mind. Only He knows the path we should take and how, precisely, we should chart it.
146:5-6 God's children are happy. That emotion the rest of the world is chasing and searching for, we already have. God creates and sustains full joy in us that absorbs the anxiety and dismantles the fear. He inspires and brightens our hope. He created our beautiful earth and as we submit to His will, we join in its natural peace. We benefit from God's natural truth.
146:7 God's attention and effort is on the oppressed, the hungry and the imprisoned. No matter who oppresses us, what lack we have, or the type of prison we are in, God changes our circumstances.
146:8-9 He gives us new eyes, new perspective to live life more: righteously, compassionately, productively. He is able to raise the humble and obedient to Him because we follow Him into wisdom and opportunity. He loves to lead us because He loves us, no matter how downtrodden or unknown we are in the world. The lonely, fatherless, widows, orphans... all are God's specialty. He searches for children who pray to receive healing from Him.
146:10 The Lord shall reign forever... He is determined, solid, committed. Praise the Lord.
