It was a day, years ago, touched by the ever-living power of the Word of God, Psalm 95 had me pick up a pen and my slightly twangy guitar to put down a song.
The Lord put the gospel message on my heart as I meditated on His exhortation, “Come let us worship and bow down.
“Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker” Psalm 95:6.
We all are created by God. And His greatest gift to us, He lets us decide whether to believe or not.
He desires we all “talk to Him,” seek His Word and spend time with Him. His love is so great. He is love.
Love came down.
Joy? It’s a gift of His Holy Spirit. When we turn our hearts to Him and call on Him (for who He is, the Savior of the world), we receive (His) love. His Spirit comes and washes our sins. He makes us a new creation, today, in Him.
God the Father gives us His love through His Son who paid our debt in full and gave us His Spirit as a guarantee.
We bow down, He turns the “light on” in our souls. He breathes in us His breath of life. We become whole, filled with joy.
And we must not forget, peace. Jesus takes all our garbage and sin and gives us new birth.
“In Christ,” we become new creations. Born a second time into life, here and now, and for all eternity.
His Spirit calls . . .
“Come, let us worship.”
Talk to the Lord, not half-hearted but with all your heart.
Is it time to make Him your God, who lives and dwells with you?
A Call to Worship and Obedience
Psalm 95 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord!
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving;
Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
3 For the Lord is the great God,
And the great King above all gods.
4 In His hand are the deep places of the earth;
The heights of the hills are His also.
5 The sea is His, for He made it;
And His hands formed the dry land.
6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7 For He is our God,
And we are the people of His pasture,
And the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you will hear His voice:
8 “Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion,
As in the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 When your fathers tested Me;
They tried Me, though they saw My work.
10 For forty years I was grieved with that generation,
And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts,
And they do not know My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
Make today, your day of salvation. Enter into the “joy” of the Lord!
And make sure you tell someone about your new-birth in Christ.
This is beautiful and worshipful, Toni! May your Christmas be filled with blessings.