This morning I read through one of my favorite chapters in Psalms - Psalm 145.
1 I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever. 2 Every day I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever . . . 10 All you have made will praise you, O Lord; your saints will extol you.
When I got to verse 10 and noticed once again the word extol, I decided it was finally time to find out exactly what this word means and not just think and assume I know.
After looking online, I was actually quite surprised by the definition of the word . . . it is a verb and means praise enthusiastically. Some synonyms are: go into raptures about/over, wax lyrical about, sing the praises of, praise to the skies, acclaim, exalt, eulogize, adulate, rhapsodize over, rave about, enthuse about/over, overpraise; (informal) go wild about, go on about, ballyhoo; (formal) laud.
Praise enthusiastically! WOW! Do we really worship and praise our Father enthusiastically? Do we live our lives where people know that we extol our King?!
1 I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever. 2 Every day I will praise you and praise enthusiastically your name for ever and ever . . . 10 All you have made will praise you, O Lord; your saints will praise you enthusiastically.
May we truly Extol the Lord our God.
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