"Extol" comes from the Middle English, extollere (ex = up or out; and tollere = tolerate). "Tolerate" means "to allow to be or to be done without prohibition, hinderance, or contradiction."
Thus, every day, I will "tolerate" God's sovereign goodness in whatever way He in His tender mercy decides is best--even when my soul is wanting to prohibit, hinder, or contradict His design; even when my understanding is tormented or my emotions are confused. Frankly, that's a pleasant gift He provides for people. We are sometimes easily bewildered; sometimes we are appropriately bewildered... or so we think.
Lord, my God and my King, I delight in praising You, especially when "circumstances" instead of Truth tempt me to distrust Your goodness and faithfulness. Bewildered? (How curiously funny that bewilderment immediately precedes bewitch in the dictionary.)
Why would I ever choose to "be wilder, confused, or jumbled?" Your Spirit is ever brooding over the dark voids of Your creation (Genesis 1:1-3), bringing light to darkness and order to confusion and substance to emptiness. Lord, as a humble corner of Your creation, I eagerly await Your new dawn on this day in my life! Really! Eagerly! Happily!
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