How To Praise and Thank God 如何赞美及感谢主
Author: Sister Kathleen Lee
I read this article and would like to share it with my dear brothers & sisters in Christ.
How To Praise and Thank God
It is quite natural for us to praise God for who He is TO US. And so, on a Sunday morning, we might feel like being in a worshipful spirit because everything is going our way and life is good, and we are relatively free from major problems or pain in our lives. But what if life is not going well for us? What about the Christian who seems to be always plagued with insurmountable problems? Can he or she still praise God and thank Him?
It is important to note that our praise of God should not be limited to our experience of Him, for God is bigger than our experience. And that is why the Bible always leaves a certain mystery about God that we human beings cannot fathom. We must therefore praise God for what we know about Him and for what remains hidden from us. We should praise God not primarily because of what we are experiencing but because of who God is. Our praise of God should be based on what God’s Word says about God rather than on my present experience or feelings. It is for this reason that connecting worship and praise and thanksgiving solely to emotions and feelings and present human experience is not particularly helpful for a proper understanding of worship.
Paul and Silas (Acts 16:25) demonstrate for us what our praise and thanksgiving should be based on, not on what is happening to us or how we are feeling, but on who God, the Unchanging One, is.
The Word of God tells us who God is. We must read our Bibles well in order to praise God well.
文:李木兰姐妹
翻译:王佩瑾师母
我想与弟兄姐妹分享一篇我读过的文章：
如何赞美及感谢主
因为神的本性而赞美祂是件非常自然的事。所以，星期天早晨，我们或许会觉得自己处于一种崇拜的精神中，因为生活当中事事都称心如意，日子过得很好，没有面对极大的问题或痛苦。但万一，我们遇上了不如意的事呢？又或者是生活中总是面临着重重困难及考验的信徒呢？他是否依旧能够赞美及感谢神呢？
我们需要注意的是，我们对神的赞美不应该局限于我们对祂的体验，因为神远远大过我们自身的体验。这就是为什么，圣经里，神往往都给人们一种神秘的感觉，让人摸不着，猜不透。所以，我们应该为我们所了解的还有那些仍然隐秘的事而赞美神。我们赞美祂只因祂是神，而不是因为我们的经历。我们对神的赞美应该基于神的话语对祂的描述，而不是我现在的感觉或经历。所以，如果单把敬拜、赞美及感恩与你此时的情绪、感觉及体验挂钩，那是没有办法好好地了解什么是敬拜神。
保罗和西拉（使徒行传16：25）已经示范给我们看，赞美及感恩不是因为所经历过的事或是自己的感觉，而是因为祂是那永远不变的神。
圣经清楚地告诉我们神是谁。我们要好好地赞美祂，就必须勤于阅读圣经。