lifting God up lifts us up

My mother used to say God loves praise, whereupon I would ask why? Does God have a self-esteem problem? What I did not understand at the time was that God wants us to praise Him for our own benefit. When we lift Him up, we lift ourselves up. And this is true when we speak well of every individual, here too we benefit. We can even see this linked to capitalism, when we help others the marketplace rewards us according to the extent others benefit from our help. We are rewarded for success, unlike those in the current government who reward failure.