THE PSALMS – A JOURNEY IN WORSHIP AND FAITH - November 15, 2014 - Day 95 - Psalm 95

If you ever wondered why you exist the Bible is clear on that answer. We exist to bring glory to God and everything we do in life should have that as its ultimate motive. Revelation 4:11 cries out to God in this way, "Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created." Psalm 95 is psalm of worship. It instructs us to come before God in thankfulness and praise.

Psalm 95:1-2
O come, let us sing for joy to the LORD, Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.

Sometimes we don’t feel very thankful. The first thing I try and do immediately upon awakening in the morning is to go straight to God in prayer and be thankful I am alive and for all His blessings, but mornings can be hard. It is in those times when it is hard to worship that we must remember how blessed we are by our God.

Psalm 95:3-5
For the LORD is a great God And a great King above all gods, In whose hand are the depths of the earth, The peaks of the mountains are His also. The sea is His, for it was He who made it, And His hands formed the dry land.

There are many ways we can worship God. We can sing and we can dance and we can clap to His Glory. But we must never lose sight of how holy He is and we must spend time in reverent worship. To hear God’s voice we must at times just quietly fall before Him.

Psalm 95:6-7
Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today, if you would hear His voice,

One reason we must learn to be quiet before Him is so we can be reminded of the dangers of forgetting that He is where our faith must be otherwise we become like Israel and become complainers because we think we know better than Him. We must not get impatient with God as they did and demand He provide what we ask in our time and in our ways.

Psalm 95:8-11
Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness, "When your fathers tested Me, They tried Me, though they had seen My work. "For forty years I loathed that generation, And said they are a people who err in their heart, And they do not know My ways. "Therefore I swore in My anger, Truly they shall not enter into My rest."

Take time occasionally to go back to the stories that led the people to wander forty years in the wilderness and for a whole generation to miss out on the Promised Land. Look at Exodus 17:1-7 and read about what happened at Meribah and Massah. Read Numbers 20:1-13 that tell about Moses and His striking the rock twice. So let us turn our murmurings into praise and our fears into faith. For our God and our Lord is worthy of all praise, honor, and worship.