Kansas City, Missouri,
United States - Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - “Call to Worship” – Friday,
25 April 2014 - Scripture: Psalm 95:1 Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh.
Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our
salvation!
2 Let’s come before his presence
with thanksgiving.
Let’s extol him with songs!
3 For Yahweh is a great
God,
a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the
deep places of the earth.
The heights of the mountains are also his.
5 The sea is his, and he
made it.
His hands formed the dry land.
6 Oh come, let’s worship
and bow down.
Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
7 for he is our God.
We are the people of his pasture,
and the sheep in his care.
Today, oh that you would
hear his voice!
8 Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah,
as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
9 when your fathers
tempted me,
tested me, and saw my work.
10 Forty long years I
was grieved with that generation,
and said, “It is a people that errs in
their heart.
They
have not known my ways.”
11 Therefore I swore in
my wrath,
“They won’t enter into my rest.”
“Call to Worship” by Duane
C. Brush
Twice the psalmist
invites us to come before God in praise and worship (95:1, 6). Worship requires
relocation. We must leave where we are and enter a place where God can be
exalted and glorified. This is not primarily a physical location as much as it
is a spiritual and emotional one. It has less to do with our surroundings as
with our attention, where and on whom it is focused.
For ancient Israel the
call to worship the Lord, “the great King above all gods,” meant that they
could no longer dally with idols. To truly worship they must focus on the true
God whose awesome grandeur can be perceived in His creation. Israel had to come
out of their tendency to bitterly complain against God whenever they felt their
needs and comfort were not being sufficiently met. They needed a new vision of
themselves as “the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.” A proud
posture will not do, “Come, let us bow down.
Come and worship God. Focus
your attention on Him and not the false idols this world extols. Let go of the
past with its self-absorption and bitterness. Kneel before the Lord. You are
under His care.
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Hymn for Today:
“O Worship the King” by Robert
Grant
1. O worship the King
all-glorious above,
O gratefully sing his
power and his love:
our shield and defender,
the Ancient of Days,
pavilioned in splendor
and girded with praise.
2. O tell of his might
and sing of his grace,
whose robe is the light,
whose canopy space.
His chariots of wrath
the deep thunderclouds form,
and dark is his path on
the wings of the storm.
3. Your bountiful care,
what tongue can recite?
It breathes in the air,
it shines in the light;
it streams from the
hills, it descends to the plain,
and sweetly distills in
the dew and the rain.
4. Frail children of
dust, and feeble as frail,
in you do we trust, nor
find you to fail.
Your mercies, how
tender, how firm to the end,
our Maker, Defender,
Redeemer, and Friend!
5. O measureless Might,
unchangeable Love,
whom angels delight to
worship above!
Your ransomed creation,
with glory ablaze,
in true adoration shall
sing to your praise!
Thought for Today:
“Who is like you,
Yahweh, among the gods?
Who is like you, glorious in holiness,
fearful in praises, doing wonders?” (Exodus
15:11).
Prayer Needs:
Many young people in
Bolivia will be called into full-time Christian ministry.
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