Psalm 100:1-5
A Psalm of praise.
“Make a joyful noise
unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the
LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.” (Psalm 100:1-2)
This psalm is similar to many others, but it has been set to
modern music. It again stresses the need
to take time to thank God for the wonderful things he has done for us. All the earth has been blessed by his
actions, and we ought to be thankful and enjoy those blessings. We should be
singing with pleasure about what he has done.
“Know ye that the LORD
he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people,
and the sheep of his pasture.” (Psalm 100:3)
The first thing in living a life of joy or happiness is to
recognize God as God. He is the creator
of the world, but he is also the shepherd who cares for each of his individual
sheep, taking care of their individual needs.
He is not just the God who lives a way up there in heaven, but he cares
about each of us.
“Enter into his gates
with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and
bless his name. For the LORD is good;
his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.” (Psalm
100:4-5)
Knowing who the Lord is, we should not be afraid to follow
him through a gate but should be excited
and thanking him even when we don’t know where we are going because we know he
is Good and everything he does will be good for us, as Romans 8:28-32 reminds
us. “And
we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them
who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren. Moreover
whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also
justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God
be for us, who can be against us? He
that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not
with him also freely give us all things?”
We have nothing to fear.
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