Well this is the shortest psalm in the Bible, and in a couple of psalms time we will have the longest.
All nations are to praise the Lord. The world speaks as if all religions are the same, as if each person can choose for themselves what to believe or not believe. Well it is true that each person can and does choose, but some make better choices than others!
The truth is that there is only one God who created the whole universe, seen and unseen. It does not actually make any sense to worship anything else.
So all peoples are called upon to worship and extol the Lord. Now today's society gets all hot under the collar about this, but it really shouldn't. One of the recurrent themes in the New Testament is that there is no distinction, and that God does not show favouritism. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are saved by faith in Christ (Rom 3:23). The gospel is not saying Christians are right and Muslims or Hindus or Atheists are wrong. It is saying that all of us need to come to Christ. It is not Christians who are right, it is Christ who is right.
See what verse 2 says, "For great is His steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever". The call is for all people to come to Christ to be adopted as children into His family. Muslims are not the enemy, atheists are not the enemy. Jesus died and rose again for all people, He desires that all people come to Him in faith and so are saved.
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