Celebrate!

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# 44 2020 Dev. Psalm 98:4. Celebrate! Read all of Psalm 98. 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 98:4 “Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music;”

Psalms 90 through 100 are a series of 11 Psalms that open and close with “Lord” (Adonai) or “the Lord” (Yahweh). Psalm 98 is a call to celebrate. The song is divided into three stanzas; First, God is celebrated, second, the people celebrate, third, all of creation celebrates.

Vs.1-3 God “has done marvelous things”, “has made known his salvation.” God loves His people, is faithful to them and “the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.” As followers of Jesus that is what our lives are all about; living our faith, our love, our faithfulness, our compassion, walking in God’s kingdom on this earth, daily and in the moment.

Vs. 4-6 “Shout for joy, burst into jubilant song, make music with the harp, with trumpets, shout for joy before the Lord, the King.” This is what church is all about; worship, rejoicing, fellowship, benevolence and praying for the lost, mostly done on Sundays but all of life is to be worship, continually, as the Psalmist points out,

Vs.7-9 All of nature; the sea, the rivers, the mountains including the valleys, the plains and the sky praise God! The Psalmist here is talking about the culmination of history as we know it. As Paul puts it in Rm. 8: 18-22 “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” Yet, God is displayed all around us; His glory, His power, His righteousness, His love and salvation, renewed every year. “He is making everything new!” The picture the Psalmist paints in part three is not seen with the ordinary eye but with the eyes lighted by the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Jesus and anticipates God’s righteous judgment

Along with nature we worship God daily, continually for every day God has ordained for us on this earth. Praise the Lord!

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