Ta-Dah!!
Vocabulary is often quite fun, especially when you encounter a word that would not even appear on the SATs. So I receive an email daily from the Brothers Merriam and Noah Webster. Last Thursday’s word sounded like something you would hear in a birthing class, but it actually means something quite profound when used PERFECTLY.
Encomium
encomium (noun): glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise. Greek enkōmion, from en in + kōmos revel, celebration.
Although the examples MW provides for encomium focus on the praise of humans, the first stop for Christians should be our encomium focused upon the Lord. Here’s a great example from scripture:
These things I remember,
Psalm 42:4
as I pour out my soul:
how I would go with the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
a multitude keeping festival.
By the way, the Hebrew word for the enthusiastic praise mentioned in the above passage is תּוֹדָה (pronounced Ta-Dah!). I wonder if this was the origin of the sound trumpets make when royalty enters.
So go forth today with a life that is an encomium to one who is the Author of Life, the Universe, and Everything!
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