Psalm 145:2-3 NKJV
Every day I will bless You,
And I will praise Your name forever and ever.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
And His greatness is unsearchable.
Everyday Grace from an Unsearchable God
My Notes
It is easy to worship God on the mountains. When the sun is shining, the bills are paid, and our families are healthy, praise feels like second nature. But life doesn’t stay on the mountaintop. We face gray Tuesdays, stressful deadlines, and seasons of heavy grief.
In Psalm 145:2–3, David gives us a glimpse into a heart that has learned the secret of consistent, unbroken devotion. He shows us that worship isn’t an emotional reaction to good circumstances—it is a daily, lifelong choice based on an unchangeable God.
“Every day I will bless You, And I will praise Your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable.” Psalm 145:2–3 (NKJV)
Look closely at how David begins: “Every day I will bless You.”
Think about the sheer variety of days David experienced. He had days of running for his life in lonely caves, days of military triumph, days of deep family heartbreak, and days of quiet peace. Yet, his resolution stands firm: every single day. He doesn’t say, “On holy days,” or “On good days.” To a heart fully surrendered to God, every ordinary day is a holy day.
Why? Because we receive brand-new mercies every single morning. We are just as dependent on God on a mundane, quiet Thursday as we are during a major life crisis. Because He remains exactly the same—yesterday, today, and forever—He is equally worthy of our gratitude every morning we wake up.
Notice, too, how personal this gets. David shifts from his statement in verse one (“I will bless Your name”) to a deeper, closer level of intimacy: “I will bless You.” This is the very core of true faith. This is the true kernel of devotion. We aren’t just thanking God for His benefits, His gifts, or His historical track record; we are admiring Him. Without realizing the vibrant personality of a living God, true praise is impossible.
David then intentionally layers his words, moving from “bless” to “praise.” Think of these terms as steps on a gradual scale of worship. Thanksgiving runs up into blessing, and blessing ultimately ascends into praise. Praise is the highest, most perfect job of a living spirit. Furthermore, David refuses to praise by proxy. Four distinct times across these verses, he uses the personal pronoun “I will.” He understood that true worship cannot be outsourced. Your very self must be fully present in it.
Then, David transitions from the frequency of his praise to the reason behind it:
“Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable.”
Our worship should always mirror its object. A great God demands great praise! In the human world, vast power and greatness often corrupt, turning into vast evil. But with Jehovah, His greatness is a magnificence of goodness. There is no part of His character that isn’t worthy of our highest honor.
Not all the collective minds of all the centuries will ever suffice to map out the unsearchable riches of Christ. Because His baseline majesty is literally bottomless, our exploration of Him can never hit a dead end. This means heavenly, eternal worship will never become monotonous or boring. We are not harping on a single string; we are exploring an infinite God.
Take your focus off your temporary circumstances, turn your eyes toward His unsearchable beauty, and give Him the great praise He uniquely deserves. You could study the character of God for ten thousand years, and you would still only be scratching the surface of His love, His wisdom, and His power.
Because His riches are past finding out, we will never run out of reasons to worship Him. Our praise will never become monotonous or boring, because we are exploring an infinite ocean of goodness. What we practice poorly and imperfectly every day on earth, we will perfect throughout all eternity.
When David says, “I will bless You,” he’s not just blessing God’s name—he’s blessing God Himself. That’s the core of worship: loving God for who He is, not just for what He does.
Prayer
Abba, You are incredibly great, and You are deeply worthy of my highest praise. Please forgive me of any casual or half-hearted worship. I want my praise to match Your magnificent goodness. I make a choice right now, Lord, to bless You every single day. Whether tomorrow brings joy or difficulty, routine or chaos, remind my soul that You have not changed. Thank You for the fresh mercies waiting for me every morning. Teach me to love You for who You are, not just for what You give me, and let my life be an endless song to Your unsearchable name. I pray this in Jesus’ name, Amen.
Cross References (NKJV)
- Psalm 48:1 “Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised In the city of our God, In His holy mountain.”
- Psalm 92:2 “To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, And Your faithfulness every night,”
- Lamentations 3:22–23 “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.”
- Ephesians 3:8 “To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,”
Key Takeaways
- Praise Every Day: True worship is not a matter of selective holy days or emotional highs; it is a fixed, daily commitment regardless of changing circumstances.
- The Personal Vow: Worship cannot be done by proxy or experienced passively through others. It requires a personal, conscious decision to declare, “I will.”
- A Scale of Affection: Devotion matures as it moves from generic thanksgiving for God’s gifts into deep, intimate blessing directed toward His actual Person.
- Infinite Exploration: Because God’s majesty is genuinely unsearchable, our worship will never become monotonous. Eternity will be a continuous, joyful discovery of His boundless goodness.
Things to Think About
- The Daily Rhythm: Be honest—does your worship currently depend on your feelings or your daily circumstances?
- Moving Past Proxies: It’s easy to mistake listening to worship music or reading someone else’s words for actual personal devotion. When was the last time you stepped away from all outside media to simply tell God, “I love You for who You are” in your own words?
- The Unsearchable Frontier: Reflect on the truth that God’s greatness is entirely unsearchable. What area of God’s character (His forgiveness, His sovereignty, His patience) feels the most wonderfully overwhelming to you right now?
Proverb for Today
My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you, So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding; Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding, If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures; Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, And find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding; He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity, He guards the paths of justice, And preserves the way of His saints. Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path. When wisdom enters your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul, Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you, To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things. Proverbs 2:1-12 NKJV
Daily Scripture
And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying: “Blessing and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, forever and ever!” Revelation 5:13 NKJV
Closing
“The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.” Numbers 6:24-26 NKJV
Grace be with you. Amen.
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Summary of Commentaries:
These commentators highlight David’s passionate, personal vow to praise God every single day, no matter what his circumstances look like. Since we receive fresh mercies each morning and stay completely dependent on Him, worship can’t be outsourced—it requires our actual selves. They also point out that because God’s greatness is infinitely beautiful and unsearchable, our eternal exploration of Him will never hit a dead end, keeping our worship dynamic and joyful forever.
Commentaries:
Charles Spurgeon
“Every day will I bless thee.” Whatever the character of the day, or of my circumstances and conditions during that day, I will continue to glorify God. Were we well to consider the matter, we should see abundant cause in each day for rendering special blessing unto the Lord. All before the day, all in the day, all following the day should constrain us to magnify our God every day, all the year round. Our love to God is not a matter of holy days: every day is alike holy to holy men. David here comes closer to God than when he said, “I will bless thy name:” it is now, “I will bless thee.” This is the centre and kernel of true devotion: we do not only admire the Lord’s words and works, but himself. Without realizing the personality of God, praise is well nigh impossible; you cannot extol an abstraction.
“And I will praise thy name for ever and ever.” He said he would bless that name, and now he vows to praise it; he will extol the Lord in every sense and way. Eternal worship shall not be without its variations; it will never become monotonous. Heavenly music is not harping upon one string, but all strings shall be tuned to one praise. Observe the personal pronouns here: four times he says “I will:” praise is not to be discharged by proxy; there must be your very self in it, or there is nothing in it.
“Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised.” Worship should be somewhat like its object—great praise for a great God. There is no part of Jehovah’s greatness which is not worthy of great praise. In some beings, greatness is but vastness of evil: in him it is magnificence of goodness. Praise may be said to be great when the song contains great matter, when the hearts producing it are intensely fervent, and when large numbers unite in the grand acclaim. No chorus is too loud, no orchestra too large, no psalm too lofty for the lauding of the Lord of Hosts.
“And his greatness is unsearchable.”
Still his worth your praise exceeds,
Excellent are all his deeds.
Song should be founded upon search; hymns composed without thought are of no worth, and tunes upon which no pains have been spent are beneath the dignity of divine adoration. Yet when we meditate most, and search most studiously, we shall still find ourselves surrounded with unknowable wonders, which will baffle all attempts to sing them worthily. The best adoration of the Unsearchable is to own him to be so, and close the eyes in reverence before the excessive light of his glory. Not all the minds of all the centuries shall suffice to search out the unsearchable riches of God; he is past finding out; and, therefore, his deserved praise is still above and beyond all that we can render to him.
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Enduring Word
Every day I will bless You: “To bless God is to praise him with a personal affection for him, and a wishing well to him; this is a growingly easy exercise as we advance in experience and grow in grace.” (Spurgeon)
iv. “Observe that David is firmly resolved to praise God. My text has four ‘I wills’ in it. Frequently it is foolish for us poor mortals to say ‘I will,’ because our will is so feeble and fickle; but when we resolve upon the praise of God, we may say, ‘I will,’ and ‘I will,’ and ‘I will,’ and ‘I will.’” (Spurgeon)
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: David piled praise upon praise, declaring God’s greatness and great worthiness to be praised. We get the feeling that David felt it would be dishonorable to withhold his praise to God or to give Him half-hearted praise. (Guzik)
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Albert Barnes
Every day will I bless thee … – Compare Psalms 92:2; Psalms 55:17. As we receive blessings from God every day (compare Lamentations 3:23), it is proper that we should render to him daily thanks; as God is the same always – “yesterday, today, and forever” – it is proper that he should receive from day to day the tribute of praise; as we are daily dependent on him – one day as much as another – our recognition of that dependence should be daily; and as he will always be unchangeably the same, it will be proper that he should be praised forever and ever. Two things are apparent from this verse:
(1) that a truly religious man “will” worship God every day;
(2) that it is the fixed purpose of a truly religious man to continue this forever.
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John Gill
Every day will I bless thee,…. For new mercies had every morning; for fresh supplies of grace every day, which all come from the fulness of Christ, to whom all grace is given, and from whence it is received, and in whom all spiritual blessings are, and by whom they are bestowed;
and I will praise thy name for ever and ever; as long as he lived in this world, and to all eternity in the world to come. David understood the doctrine of the saints’ perseverance, and knew he should not be an apostate and blasphemer of the name of Christ, but a praiser of it as long as he had a being; and that his principal service, and that of all the saints in the other world, will be praise; not praying, nor preaching, nor hearing the word, and attendance on other ordinances, which will be no more, but adoring and magnifying the riches of divine grace, Psalm 104:34.
Great [is] the Lord, and greatly to be praised,…. Christ is the great God as well as our Savior; great in all the perfections of his nature, of great wisdom, power, faithfulness, holiness, grace, and goodness; great in his person as God-man, God manifest in the flesh; great in all his offices and relations he bears and stands in to his people; and great in all his works of creation, providence, and redemption, in which he is concerned; and upon all which accounts he is to be praised, and greatly to be praised, by his people, even to the utmost of their capacities, here and hereafter; see Psalm 48:1;
and his greatness [is] unsearchable; the greatness of his nature, and the perfections of it, these are past finding out; and so are his ways and works, and the riches of his grace, John 11:7. The Targum is, “and of his greatness there is no end.” So the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions.
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Matthew Henry
Whatever others do, the psalmist will himself be much in praising God. To this good work, he here excites himself, engages himself, and has his heart much enlarged in it. What he does, that he will do, having more and more satisfaction in it. It was his duty; it was his delight.
I will bless thee, I will praise thy name; the repetition intimates the fervency of his affection to this work, the fixedness of his purpose to abound in it, and the frequency of his performances therein.
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Miscellaneous Comments
“Praise.” If we are to define it in words, we may say that praise is thankful, lowly, loving worship of the goodness and majesty of God. And therefore we often find the word “praise” joined with “blessing” and “thanksgiving,” but though all three are akin to each other, they are not all alike. They are steps in a gradual scale—a song of degrees. Thanksgiving runs up into blessing, and blessing ascends into praise; for praise comprehends both, and is the highest and most perfect work of all living spirits.
—Henry Edward Manning, 1850.
“His greatness is unsearchable.” God is so great that till Christ revealed the Father, Deity was lost in its own infinity to the perception of men. He who attempts to navigate an infinite ocean must come back to his starting point, never being able to cross. So the ancient philosophers, disputing as to the Divine Nature, were baffled by their own ingenuity; they had to confess that they comprehended nothing of God except that he was incomprehensible. Without Christ, men can only find out about God, but they can never find him.
—Thomas Le Blanc.
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