A Glimpse into the Future of Eternal Praise

Every possible experience, if prayed to the God who is really there, is destined to end in praise. Confession leads to the joy of forgiveness. Laments lead to a deeper resting in him for our happiness. If we could praise God perfectly, we would love him completely and then our joy would be full.

The new heavens and new earth are perfect because everyone and everything is glorifying God fully and therefore enjoying him forever.<br />

The new heavens and new earth are perfect because everyone and everything is glorifying God fully and therefore enjoying him forever.


A Glimpse into the Future of Eternal Praise | Devotional

Read Psalm 150.

1 Praise the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens.

2 Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness.

3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, 4 praise him with timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe, 5 praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.

6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.

An eternity of praise. The psalms are, in the end, a miniature of life.

Every possible experience, if prayed to the God who is really there, is destined to end in praise. Confession leads to the joy of forgiveness.

Laments lead to a deeper resting in him for our happiness. If we could praise God perfectly, we would love him completely and then our joy would be full.

The new heavens and new earth are perfect because everyone and everything is glorifying God fully and therefore enjoying him forever.

So Psalm 150 gives us a glimpse of that unimaginable future. So praise him everywhere (verse 1) for everything (verse 2) in every way (verses 3–5). “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord” (verse 6).

Prayer: Lord, you have given so much to me. Give me one thing more—a heart for praising you.

“Not thankful, when it pleaseth me; as if thy blessings had spare days: But such a heart, whose pulse may be Thy praise.”149 Amen.


Every possible experience, if prayed to the God who is really there, is destined to end in praise. Confession leads to the joy of forgiveness.

Laments lead to a deeper resting in him for our happiness. If we could praise God perfectly, we would love him completely and then our joy would be full.

The new heavens and new earth are perfect because everyone and everything is glorifying God fully and therefore enjoying him forever.

So Psalm 150 gives us a glimpse of that unimaginable future. So praise him everywhere (verse 1) for everything (verse 2) in every way (verses 3–5). “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord” (verse 6).

Prayer: Lord, you have given so much to me. Give me one thing more—a heart for praising you.

“Not thankful, when it pleaseth me; as if thy blessings had spare days: But such a heart, whose pulse may be Thy praise.”149 Amen.

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Timothy J. Keller is an American Christian pastor, theologian, and author, born on September 23, 1950, in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a Presbyterian family and attended Bucknell University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1972.