Reasons Versus No Reason!

Growing up, there was this popular song we sang about praising God that says, "In my heart, I've a reason to praise the Lord!" This chorus, as inspiring as it sounds, leaves lots of rooms for it to be punctured. To have a reason to praise God suggests with an undertone that when and where you can't find a reason to, then you wouldn't praise. This notion puts an unhealthy and imbalanced responsibility on God to become a performer to get praise. Where or when you can't see performance, you'd deny Him praise. Such an approach is barbaric, lacks love, and stands contrary to scriptures. We're told to give thanks to God in all things, not only when things are working right. If you've to wait or probate your praise to only when you hit a high, your understanding of whom God is stands on faulty balance, and your praise would remain conditional. Our praises to God should stem from our relationship to Him; relationship that's deeper than whether he provides or not. When Jesus schooled the Samaritan woman about true worship and how God seeks true worshippers (John 4: 20-24), he did not tie true worship to anything other than the right posture of our hearts. A true worship experience is not in songs but in rendering your heart to bring an incense of sweet pleasure to God. People in this class and mood do not seek reasons to praise God.