Holy Week 2019: Praise Ye the Lord! Ps. 117

Posted by Lisa Laree to Beer Lahai Roi.

I can honestly say...I have really not paid much attention to Ps. 117.  It is, after all, only two verses long.

I kinda think it must've been like, the favorite worship chorus that folks would sing.  Sort of like "I Love You, Lord" today...which, if I counted right, is actually 6 words longer than Ps. 117.

It's packed with praise. 

Praise the LORD, all nations!
Extol him, all peoples!
For great is his steadfast love toward us,
And the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever.
Praise the LORD!

This actually puts me in mind of something that happened at work last week...our church building was, in years past, a large high school.  What was the cafeteria was kind of a sunken living room, if you will...down about 8 steps from ground level and big enough to put tables for a good chunk of the student body (which was nearly 3,000 kids in th '70's).  A picture is worth 1,000 words, right...

The wall on the left just cuts one corner of the triangle off -- there's a wide walkway that wraps around, with classrooms off of it.  This picture was taken about a month before we started having services there; we joked we could have an All-Skate there, but I digress...Anyway, we call that space 'The Commons', and it functions as the church fellowship hall.
We have a daycare for church employees and pastor's kids, and at some point in the afternoon they load the toddler class into the six-seater buggy and they take them a couple of laps around the Commons.  Last week, during one of those weeks, the kids just started singing, and little treble voices rang out at the top of their lungs, with no help from the teachers:

Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelujah!
Praise ye the Lord!

Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelujah!
Praise ye the Lord!
Praise ye the Lord! Hallelujah! 
Praise ye the Lord! Hallelujah!

Praise ye the Lord! Hallelujah! 
Praise ye the Lord!

It echoed all around the big empty space and into my office and was seriously the cutest thing.  

I think that was a good reminder...that sometimes, a little praise chorus is just what you need.
Kinda like Psalms 117.