The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Psalm 100:1-5,
"Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Worship the Lord with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations."
This is Psalm 100 in its entirely - a short 5 verses. It begins with a call to worship the Lord.
"Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Worship the Lord with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations."
This is Psalm 100 in its entirely - a short 5 verses. It begins with a call to worship the Lord.
What I love about this psalm is its expression of what the normative emotions, passion, excitement and ardent affections are that should be found in our worship as we focus on the Lord.
Joy expressed in joyful songs, gladness, thanksgiving, an irresistible felt compulsion to praise.
The psalmist provides the grounds for this passion to praise the Lord as being due to the Lord's own compelling and evocative qualities: the Lord is our Creator God and so we belong to him. He is good, his love endures forever and his faithfulness has no end. Think about those things!
I find this beautiful psalm to be a real jewel in the pages of Scripture!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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