LET US BOW DOWN IN WORSHIP

Psalm 95:1-11 / Keywords 95:6

Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;

 95:1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;

    let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving

    and extol him with music and song.

3 For the Lord is the great God,

    the great King above all gods.

4 In his hand are the depths of the earth,

    and the mountain peaks belong to him.

5 The sea is his, for he made it,

    and his hands formed the dry land.

6 Come, let us bow down in worship,

    let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;

7 for he is our God

    and we are the people of his pasture,

    the flock under his care.

Today, if only you would hear his voice,

8 “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,[a]

    as you did that day at Massah[b] in the wilderness,

9 where your ancestors tested me;

    they tried me, though they had seen what I did.

10 For forty years I was angry with that generation;

    I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,

    and they have not known my ways.’

11 So I declared on oath in my anger,

    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”

Footnotes

Psalm 95:8 Meribah means quarreling.

Psalm 95:8 Massah means testing.

1. The Psalmist invites the people to praise the LORD, to sing and shout to the one who saves them. When we come before God with thanksgiving, we worship him. His greatness is displayed in all creation. This God saves us. He is the one who calls us to himself to bow down and worship. We worship when we thank him for his saving grace. We worship him when we recognize him as our good shepherd, follow him, and seek his care.

 

2. The LORD gave the people of Israel his word. Now the writer implores the people to hear his voice. This, too, is worship. The Israelites were called out of Egypt and given the word of God to guide them. Instead, they hardened their hearts and went away from God after idols. They incurred the wrath of God and had no comfort. Hearing God’s voice is how we come before him and enter his rest.

 

Prayer Lord, thank you for your great salvation. Help me to listen to your word everyday so that I may worship you.

One Word Let us worship the LORD