Message summary: Today let's praise the Lord at all times. May His praise be continual not intermittent!

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"I will bless the LORD at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth" (Psalm 34:1). "Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise--the fruit of lips that openly profess His name" (Hebrews 13:15).

The other day I took Ester to work and she informed me that, although it was not raining, the windshield wipers were on. I explained that they were on the intermittent setting since there was a light mist. Of course if the wipers continually run over a dry windshield you get that annoying squeaking sound.

In my earliest driving years this feature was new but became common on cars in the 70's. Now most have never seen a car without them, kind of like that third brake light that was a cool new safety feature in our young married years. We even remember adding an aftermarket one to our car.

The intermittent wiper was invented by a mechanical engineer by the name of Robert William Kearns. He modeled his mechanism on the human eye, which blinks every few seconds.

Intermittent is a helpful feature for windshield wipers but is not the pattern for how often we are to praise God! The Bible says, "I will bless the LORD at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth".

This brings to mind another windshield illustration. We were driving along in the rain when the wiper blade snapped offpassenger side on the passenger side. I was concerned that the metal on the wiper arm would scratch the glass so I lifted it up as you do when cleaning the windshield. In doing so it protected the glass but was rather unusual to watch from its new position as it moved back and forth jutting straight up from the windshield as though it was waving. Brooksyne said, "Look, the wiper arm is praising the Lord!"

Well, that sure prompted my family to praise the Lord and became another reminder of God's call that everything that has breath is to praise the Lord (though I will quickly admit wipers do not breathe nor do they have a soul).

God clearly calls His people to praise. We may have a tendency to segment praise to a specific place (church) or time (the Lord's Day). Perhaps we may associate praise with a particular action such as a vocal exclamation, a praise song or raising our hands. We may even allow our emotions to dictate our praise such as when we're "in the mood" or "as we feel led".

But in the first daily verse the Psalmist provides a personal testimony of praise and is an example to all of us: "I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth". That's all the time, which has to be everywhere! Praise is an acknowledgement and declaration of God's worthiness. And His worthiness never changes! Praise the Lord!!!

Today, let us praise the Lord at all times. May His praise be continual not intermittent!

Be encouraged today, Hebrews 3:13.

Stephen & Brooksyne Weber

Daily prayer: We praise You, O Lord God, Creator of heaven and earth! We make a joyful noise to You, the Rock of our salvation, and enter into Your presence with thanksgiving and praise. We sing songs of unending praise, for You O Lord are a great God, and a great King above all gods. We praise You in Your sanctuary and praise You in Your mighty heavens! We praise You for Your mighty deeds and praise You according to Your excellent greatness! May our unending praise and thanksgiving toward You reflect Your unending love and grace poured out upon us. Amen.

Adapted verses from Psalm 95, Psalm 150,