Psalm 33: I love it when a plan comes together

By Andi Norton

Psalm 33 (MSG)


I love to stop and take a day out every so often to be creative - write a song, record it, maybe even make a video. I get engrossed for hours and then stand back and admire something that I'm truly happy with, as it's turned out just how I planned it in my head.

Often Nikki will produce great pieces of art or wonderful clothes for our children or the ultimate cake and she will be pleased to see that it brings great satisfaction to those it was designed for (my tummy in the case of cake).

In the same way God takes pleasure in His creation when it fulfills what it was designed for and in the opening verses of Psalm 33, we can see that we were designed for worship, to praise our Creator, to show Him gratitude for all He's done for us.

Good people, cheer God! Right-living people sound best when praising.
Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs!
Play his praise on a grand piano!
Invent your own new song to him;
give him a trumpet fanfare.
It's a great encouragement of where we are as a church in our worship at the moment. As I read these words I can see our times of worship together - Sunday mornings, Friday prayer and Gatherings. A people longing to come to their Creator and praise Him, and God loves it when we do it.

I love the film Toy story in which Buzz Light year is struggling with his identify, being Andy's toy, and Woody is trying to tell him he's not a real space ranger but an action figure designed to bring pleasure to his owner Andy.

Buzz is completed unsatisfied until he comes to the understanding that he was created to make a child ecstatically happy.

It's the same with us, we were designed to bring pleasure to our Creator through worship:

Let all the earth fear the LORD;
let all the people of the world revere him.
For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm.


I love it when a plan comes together, and so does God, when we get completely lost in wonder of all our Creator has done for us, when we depend completely on Him as everything we need.

Lord , thank you for life, a purpose in You
We say we depend on You;
You are everything we need.
our hearts brim with joy
since we've taken for our own Your holy name.
Love us, God, with all you've got—
that's what we depend on.
Receive our worship that it may bring you great pleasure.