It would seem important to test what kind of praise is the right kind—the kind that just might bring a smile to God’s face. We think the praise required of us is the maintenance of a constant state of astonishment at Jesus. Personally, I don’t think he wants so much for us to wave palm fronds at his authority, but rather to locate our own—to be not so astonished at Jesus’s authority but to live astonishingly, inhabiting our own power to live as he would.
