AE 1210 - "To praise God"

AE 1210
"To praise God" signifies confession and worship,
because the Lord has no wish to be praised and glorified
from any love of Himself,
but only from His love for man,
for man must needs praise and glorify the Lord,
that is, give praise and glory to Him,
when he acknowledges in heart that there is nothing of good in himself,
and that he can do nothing of himself,
and on the other hand, that all good is from the Lord,
and that the Lord can do all things.
When man is in this acknowledgment,
he puts aside what is his own,
which belongs to the love of self,
and opens all things of his mind,
and thus gives room for the Divine to flow in with good and with power.
This is why it is necessary for man to be in humiliation before the Lord,
and why humiliation can be from no other source
than self-acknowledgment and acknowledgment of the Lord,
according to which reception is effected.