Day 58
I Chronicles 29:30 NIV
"King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed their heads and worshiped."
Although the Levites were commanded to sing praises to the Lord, they did it with gladness. When we enjoy doing something, it is possible to do it with gladness, even when we are following orders. Everything is not necessarily more enjoyable because we choose to do it. Sometimes we choose to do things and end up not enjoying ourselves. On the other hand, we can end up thoroughly enjoying some things we did by command and not choice.
When we can sing praises to the Lord on command with gladness, we have grown in our love for praising Him. If we practice exalting and praising Him in private more, perhaps we will be more enthusiastic when we are commanded to do so in public.
Praising God will become such a regular thing that I do privately, that praising Him in public by command will be a joy, because it is something I always want to do. I love to praise Him.