Worship The Lord With Gladness; Come Before Him With Joyful Songs
His Love Endures Forever!
PSALM 100:1-5
“Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations.
”Psalms 100:1-5 NKJV
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David wrote this Psalm, maybe early in his reign as king as he set down the standards he wanted to follow. He knew that to lead a blameless life, he would need God's help. He recognised that he was king because God Himself gave him that position, and he could do nothing good in his own strength.
We believers should set ourselves high standards, and if we are going to live blameless lives in service to God, we too need God's help. It is impossible for man to live right in his own strength.
We can live blameless lives if we avoid; looking at wickedness, by refusing to look at anything vile or vulgar avoid evil thoughts ("perverse ideas") slander and pride.
While avoiding these wrongs, we must also allow the Holy Spirit to lead us (JOHN 14:15-18) and God's Word to show us the standards by which we are to live by following His instruction, making time every day for prayer.
The indwelling Holy Spirit will lead us in all truth and righteousness, but He doesn’t take away our free will. Therefore, we must choose to walk in the Spirit, and put the lust of the flesh to death (GALATIANS 5:16-26).
Only through personal prayer and worship can one build his relationship with God.
David tells us to acknowledge that the Lord is God!
We acknowledge Him as we sing and shout His praises, respecting His status as higher than any other and accepting His authority, agreeing with the guidance He gives us, and by expressing our thanks for His unfailing love.
We must respect God as our creator; many people live as though they are the creator and the centre of their own little world. This mind-set will leads to pride, greed, idolatry, and if everything should be taken away, a loss of hope itself.
But when we realise that God created us and provides us with all our needs, and gives us all we have, we will come to understand just how dependent on Him we really are, and His faithfulness to provide.
This reality, combined with His love will give us the desire to give to others, just as God has given to us (2 CORINTHIANS 9:8).
Then, even if all is lost, we still have God, His provision, and all He gives us. The truth is, ““Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.”
Jeremiah 17:7-8 NKJV
God alone is worthy of praise and being worshipped.
Do you happily and willingly come into God's presence or are you just going through the motions, reluctantly assembling with other believers?
Assembly, is about what one can give to God and other church members, rather than what one can receive; though we all need prayer, help, and encouragement at times, which can only come in fullness through the five fold ministry of Christ. “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
Ephesians 4:11-16 NKJV
My beloved, if it’s not Christ ministry, it shall profit you nothing.
This Psalm tells us to remember God's goodness that never changes, and then worship with praise and thanksgiving; after all, He alone is worthy of all praise.
My beloved, their is no other like Jesus Christ, His name is above every other name, and He shall reign forever!
He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords (REVELATION 17:14; 19:16), and His love endures forever.
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
