Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 732
April 22, 2025///
When my great-grandchildren run to me and hug me it is an amazing feeling of Love that can only be felt. It is like praise to who we are and balm for us if we are weary!
When you hear and see a group of children singing “Jesus Loves Me,” or other sweet songs of faith, you see pure trust, adoration and love on their faces and hear the trust and belief in their voices.
As we grow, sometimes we lose that part of us that truly trust and that praises God with pure praise for who He is and His goodness to us!
A couple of days ago, we celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ which is the greatest event in the history of the Christian Church.
But I want us to look a week earlier on what we call Palm Sunday when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a humble donkey to the noise of praise for who He is!
As the children were singing and praising Him, the Pharisees were indignant and called Jesus out for allowing it. Jesus’ response was to remind them of a scripture about children’s praises!
Jesus responded:
Matthew 21:16 (KJV)
And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? AND JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM, YEA; HAVE YE NEVER READ, OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES AND SUCKLINGS THOU HAST PERFECTED PRAISE?
This was taken from an Old Testament Psalm:
Psalm 8:2 (KJV)
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength
Because of thine enemies,
The Passion translation says it this way:
Psalm 8:2 (TPT)
You have built a stronghold by the songs of babies.
Strength rises up with the chorus of singing children.
This kind of praise has the power to shut Satan’s mouth.
Childlike worship will silence the madness of those who oppose you.
The sweet praise of children is perfect praise. What exactly is perfect Praise?
Websters Dictionary gives these definitions for perfect:
- being entirely without fault or defect:flawless
- satisfying all requirements:accurate
- pure, total:lacking in no essential detail:complete
Wow, what does it take to praise our Lord perfectly? Can we?
I believe we can as we allow Jesus to lead us, guide us, and be our very best friend. We can have clean hands and a pure heart and that will produce a life that is trusting the one who loves us and is well able to do whatever needs to be done!
As we let our minds center on the truth that the God of the Universe, the creator God, loves us and knows us inside out and wants to Bless us in Spirit, soul, and body, we begin to understand we can truly trust Him!
As the passion translation so powerfully puts it, perfect praise has the power to shut satan’s mouth. The whispers of doubt the enemy is so good at will fade when we think on who God really is and who He is in us!
I pray you will join me in coming to the Father and worshipping Him with a pure heart and perfect Praise!
Our Praise is a weapon, and our Perfect Praise is an arsenal of Power!
Let us have childlike Faith and Praise!
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Father in Jesus’ name I come and ask you to fill each of us full of the understanding of who You are and who You are in us. Give us a pure heart full of childlike trust that we can praise you with Perfect Praise and change the world around us! Amen!
Perfect Praise!
Love, MeMaw!
THOUGHTS FROM SKYDIVING MEMAW 