Wednesday, June 2, 2010

A Humbled Knee

Psalm 95 says:

Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the Lord is the great God, and the great King above all gods. In His hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the hills are His also. The sea is His, for He made it; and His hands formed the dry land.

Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. 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: "Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion. As in the day of trial in the wilderness, when your fathers tested Me; They tried Me, though they saw My work. 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.' So, I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest'."


I love this Psalm so much because it shows both the attitude we are to have as well as the attitude we are not to have when it comes to God. In vss.1-7a, we see what attitude we are all to always have, namely an attitude of joyful appreciation to God. In these verses, we see why we are to be this way, namely because He is the Lord, the source of salvation, the great God, the great King, the Maker and Ruler of all and because of the simple fact that we are His. Also, In vss.7b-11, we see what attitude we are all never to have, namely an attitude of unbelieving and defiant rebellion against God. In these verses, we see the frightening example of the Israelites who, because they refused to trust in God and take the Promised Land when God said to (Numbers 13-14), they were not allowed to enter into His rest.

This Psalm is at the center of what this blog will be. This blog will be devoted to helping myself and anyone else who reads it to cultivate and grow a joyful appreciation for the Almighty LORD of Heaven and Earth, our loving Heavenly Father. Let us not harden our hearts to the Lord. Rather, let us "sing to the Lord" and "shout joyfully to Him" and "worship and bow down" before the Lord our Maker all the days of our lives and, especially, in the life to come!

May God continue to bless you as you live before Him on a humbled knee.
~Curtis Carwile