Psalm 89 in the Message version says:
God! Let the cosmos praise your wonderful ways, the choir of holy angels sing anthems to your faithful ways! Search high and low, scan skies and land, you’ll find nothing and no one quite like God. The holy angels are in awe before him; he looms immense and august over everyone around him. God-of-the-Angel-Armies, who is like you, powerful and faithful from every angle? You put the arrogant ocean in its place and calm its waves when they turn unruly. You gave that old hag Egypt the back of your hand, you brushed off your enemies with a flick of your wrist. You own the cosmos—you made everything in it, everything from atom to archangel. You positioned the North and South Poles; the mountains Tabor and Hermon sing duets to you. With your well-muscled arm and your grip of steel— nobody trifles with you! The Right and Justice are the roots of your rule; Love and Truth are its fruits. Blessed are the people who know the passwords of praise, who shout on parade in the bright presence of God. Delighted, they dance all day long; they know who you are, what you do—they can’t keep it quiet! Your vibrant beauty has gotten inside us— you’ve been so good to us! We’re walking on air! All we are and have we owe to God, Holy God of Israel, our King! (Ps 89:5-18)
In this day and age, we have passwords for just about everything and it’s hard to remember them all! I have passwords for computers at work and at home, passwords to access different websites and online banking and so on. Life seems to consist of endless passwords and it can be difficult to access all kinds of things without them.
The passwords of praise are not like computer passwords. They are not secret, kept for just a favoured few, for the special ones. They are available to all who know God, for they consist in shouting and singing about who God is and what He has done. We know who God is. We know what He does. We can’t keep it quiet. Let’s praise God!