Oh Praise (The Only One)
Reviewed by BT • 2026-4-16
Oh Praise (The Only One)
Oh Praise (The Only One)
What This Song Teaches Us About God
Praise in the Bible is not primarily an emotional response to a good day. It is a declaration, a statement about who God is and what He has done. This song calls us to proclaim that God is the only One worthy of our highest worship — not one option among many, but the one true God who stands alone above all others. That exclusivity is not arrogance, rather it is honesty about reality.
God is incomparable. There is no one like Him. He is the Creator and Sustainer of everything, holy and entirely unlike anything in creation. And yet this God, who is entirely beyond us, has not remained distant. He stepped into our world, most fully in the person of Jesus, to rescue and restore those He loves. When we gather as a church and declare together that God alone is worthy, we are not just expressing feeling — we are reminding ourselves and each other of what is actually true. In a culture that tells us to look to ourselves, to money, to power — gathering to praise the only One reorients us around what actually deserves our lives.
Scripture Connections
- Psalm 96:4–5 — The Lord is great and most worthy of praise; all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens — He alone is genuinely worthy.
- Isaiah 46:9 — God declares that He is God and there is no other; He is God and there is no one like Him — the uniqueness this song celebrates.
- Revelation 5:12 — The heavenly multitude declares that the Lamb who was slain is worthy to receive power and wealth and wisdom and honor and glory and praise — the ultimate vision of praise the song points toward.