{"id":3408,"date":"2025-10-27T18:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T01:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:47:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:47:34","slug":"an-acrostic-psalm-of-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/blog\/an-acrostic-psalm-of-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"An Acrostic Psalm of Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I-shen Lai<\/p>\n<p><b>A<\/b>scribe greatness to God our Creator<br \/>\n<b>B<\/b>ring Him glory, all created ones<\/p>\n<p><b>C<\/b>all upon His name, all God\u2019s children<br \/>\n<b>D<\/b>raw near to Him, all God\u2019s people<\/p>\n<p><b>E<\/b>ven the mountains and the hills sing His praises<br \/>\n<b>F<\/b>lowers and trees clap their hands and dance for His glory<\/p>\n<p><b>G<\/b>oodness and mercy flow from His throne, like rivers everlasting<br \/>\n<b>H<\/b>is abundant love flows from the highest heavens, like fountains eternal<\/p>\n<p><b>I\u00a0<\/b>am who I am, says the Lord<br \/>\n<b>J<\/b>ehovah, the One who was, and is, and is to come<\/p>\n<p><b>K<\/b>ings shall bow down before me<br \/>\n<b>L<\/b>ords shall kneel in my presence<\/p>\n<p><b>M<\/b>y name, and only mine, shall be lifted high among the nations<br \/>\n<b>N<\/b>o other gods shall be worshipped in all the earth<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cO<\/b>h, Lord\u201d, I cry out, \u201cForgive my iniquities, my arrogant pride, my worship of worldly treasures and false gods!\u201d<br \/>\n<b>\u201cP<\/b>lease, God, lend me Your ear; I confess my sins and my rebellion, for they weigh me down like worthless idols!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Q<\/b>uaking and trembling in the fear of the Lord, in the depths of my despair, I hear His tender voice,<br \/>\n\u201c<b>R<\/b>epent, my child, and turn back to Me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>S<\/b>ins are wiped away and blotted out by the blood of Christ<br \/>\n<b>T<\/b>imes of refreshing shall come from His salvation<\/p>\n<p><b>U<\/b>ntil the Messiah shall come again to reign over all heaven and earth<br \/>\n<b>V<\/b>ictory over sin and death, He has already won<\/p>\n<p><b>W<\/b>e are the body of Christ, redeemed by His blood, a royal priesthood, a chosen people for His own possession, to proclaim the<br \/>\nE<b>X<\/b>cellencies of Him who called us out of the darkness into His marvelous light<\/p>\n<p><b>Y<\/b>ahweh is to be glorified in all the earth and among all creation!<br \/>\n<b>Z<\/b>ion and all God\u2019s people say: Hallelujah, Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I-shen Lai Ascribe greatness to God our Creator Bring Him glory, all created ones Call upon His name, all God\u2019s children Draw near to Him, all God\u2019s people Even the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3410,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions\/3410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbcwla.org\/home\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}