Psalms 9:1 · World English Bible
Psalms 9:1 Meaning I Will Give Thanks to Yahweh
I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
What does Psalms 9:1 mean?
Whole-hearted thanks is rarer than it sounds: a divided heart thanks God while keeping a little credit for itself, admiring its own good fortune or deeds. That hidden self-praise is the rust on the promise; it splits the heart that means to give everything.
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Whole-hearted thanks is rarer than it sounds: a divided heart thanks God while keeping a little credit for itself, admiring its own good fortune or deeds. That hidden self-praise is the rust on the promise; it splits the heart that means to give everything.
The cure is to look at the marvelous works until the seeing crowds the self out, so taken with the doing that no room is left to praise the teller. Then thanks becomes a clear window rather than a mirror turned inward, pointing past him.
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Live Psalms 9:1 today
- Before you post the good news, sit with it for five minutes alone and let yourself be glad without composing the sentence about it. See whether the gladness holds up when nobody is reading.
- When someone thanks you for something today, let the thanks pass through you to whoever or whatever actually made it possible, and say that part out loud to them.
- In a meeting where credit is getting handed around, speak about the work itself instead of your part in it, even if your part goes unmentioned.
When I tell a good story about my life, who comes out looking good in it?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 2
The sage does the work and then does not linger over it. Because nothing is claimed, nothing can be taken away, and the work stands clean.
Bhagavad Gita 2:47
You have a right to the action itself, never to its fruits. Let the doing be whole and let go of the credit that usually trails behind it.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
When you have done good, do not stand around waiting for someone to say so, any more than a vine waits for applause after bearing grapes.
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