Praise is Pondered

"While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being" (Psalm 146:2).  "The ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He pondereth all his goings" (Proverbs 5:21).  "Many… shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD" (Zechariah 8:21).  "When He was in Jerusalem… many believed in His name, when they saw the miracles which He did.  But Jesus did not commit Himself unto them, because He knew all men… He knew what was in man" (John 2:23-25). 

As long as we have any being,

We ought to offer heartfelt praise,

Reminded that the Lord is seeing

Our attitude and all our ways. 

The Lord foresees the days ahead

When mighty nations then shall come

To bow before Him, as He said,

With praise in the millennium. 

Yet even now each heart is sifted,

As in the days Christ walked with men,

To turn the hearts that may be lifted

To seek Him and be born again. 

All we like sheep, O Lord, had wandered,

Whom You have gathered with salvation. 

Now may our hearts, which You have pondered,

Bring praise with grateful adoration!