Psalms 115

Location and Setting:

• This psalm introduces God, compares him and speaks about his blessing
• The first verse is a prayer
• The author of this psalm is unknown.
• But, it can be understood that this psalm was written when:
• The Jews had other gods (or statues very accessible to them).
• The Jews had a chance of going back and worshipping those gods.
• The Jews were very discounraged.
• So, we can understand that this can be during the exile in Babylon.

The prayer

The prayer at this time normally will be a request for salvation or help. But the ONLY prayer in this psalm asks The LORD's name be exalted.

That too twice. There is no other Prayer or request in this psalm.

This is the ideal method to pray. Even Jesus taught us this method to pray. The first request is to ask for "Hallowed be thy name". All the other requests or desires follow up. This means all these have lesser priority than "The LORD's name be glorified". The focus in the Lord's prayer is on God, his kindgom, righeousness etc and a small portion that asks for our bread. The focus should always be the LORD and never us or our requirements.

Actions

Similarly, our actions should have the LORD prioritized more than anything else. We should be 

Ready for any criticism, failure or offences that are caused to us when God's name gets glorified.

But many times, we are in an opposite situation. We ourselves cause harm to God's name.

Conclusion

If you are alive, we do not have a choice but keep glorifying God's name. This obviously includes caution that our name doesn't get any honor than God's.