I have shared this particular Truth concerning Psalm 136 before, but I believe that it is important enough to repeat! Lets look at Psalm 136:1:
1 O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever.
When you do a word study on this verse, you will find that the words "he is" and "endure" have been assigned the Strong's Concordance number "9999". This number means that those words do not appear in the original manuscripts, but have been added by the translators for "clarity". Sometimes they were correct. Other times their efforts have left us with a little less understanding of something deeper! When you read this verse WITHOUT those words, it looks like this:
O give thanks to the LORD, for good, for mercy forever.
This does not mean that the Lord is NOT good, or that His mercy does NOT endure. It DOES mean that we are to give our thanks to the Lord, for His goodness and for his mercy FOREVER! There should NEVER be a moment in a day that we are not thankful and grateful to the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible for WHO He is and for every good thing that He has done in our lives! ALWAYS and FOREVER! If He never did another good thing for me, He still deserves my continual praise, thanksgiving and worship for all that He has already done! And YOURS, too! AMEN! Now let's look at just how "good" the Lord is! This is the Hebrew word "towb", which means: good in the widest sense; pleasant, agreeable, excellent, rich, valuable in estimation, prosperous, happy. This IS our GOD! AMEN! Then "mercy" is the Hebrew word "chesed", which means: kindness, goodness, faithfulness. It IS where we get the word "loving-kindness"! So, what we are seeing here is that we should be giving praise, thanksgiving and worship to HIM all day every day for WHO HE IS! For His very nature! AMEN! Let's get started being a DOER of this Word! Here is Hillsong with "This Is Our God":
Shalom in Him!
