# 38 2020 Dev. Psalm 95:1. Worship! Read all of Ps. 95. The purpose of these devotionals is to draw closer to God and grow spiritually by applying His Word to our daily living. All passages are taken from the NIV.
Psalm 95:1 “Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.”
Psalms 90 through 100 are a series of 11 Psalms that open and close with “Lord” (Adonai) or “the Lord” (Yahweh). After Psalm 94, a prayer to God for relief from persecution and injustice that speaks to what we are experiencing today, this series pivots to Psalm 95, a call to worship God Almighty. This is a call that is commanded to every generation and is still being commanded today and is commanded into eternity.
Vs.1-2 The call: “sing for joy”, come to God to worship “with thanksgiving”, and “with music and song.”
Vs.3-5 Why worship? “For the Lord is the great God” the Creator of all things.
Vs. 6-7 How? “bow down” and “let us kneel before the Lord our Maker” because we are His people endowed with the divine.
Vs. 8-11 This is not only a call to worship but a call to repentance and a warning as well: ‘“Do not harden your hearts…they shall never enter my rest’”. God’s rest here is the “promised land” they refused to enter because they did not believe God’s promises (lack of faith). But it is the metaphor for God’s eternal rest waiting for believers at that time and waiting for believers today and what we preview every Sunday.
This is the bottom line of the call to worship; how long will we harden our hearts? How long will we allow to be corrected by the world and disregard humility, thankfulness, righteousness, daily worship and the fruit of the spirit: “love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control? Against such things there is no law” (Gal. 5:22,23). Followers of Jesus transcend this world but we still live here for a short time; as we read Psalm 95 we realize that not only are we called to worship and to repentance but to dedicate all of our lives on this earth, living for Jesus every day. We have seen what God has done for us, all of us in our own way, have experienced God’s grace in our lives. For those who do not follow Jesus, you may not know or acknowledge God’s Grace to you and our country but I ask you; look truth into His face (Jesus) and let us all give thanks to God for every blessing we have received in this great land. Let us all pray that God will continue to bless His people!
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