Daily Scripture Threshing for Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Today’s Text: Psalm 95:1-11
Key Verses: Psalms 95:6 (KJV): “O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.”
Although, today’s Psalm is a call to worship, it’s is very important we understand that our worship must always proceed from the impulses of our own inner cry. Except worship flows from personal love for God, and obedience to Him, it may not be regarded as genuine. Jesus said: “those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:24). God wants us to honor Him from personal volition. His design is that we will serve Him in personal devotion and walk with him in personal relationship. We see a progression through the scriptural dispensation in which we who were no people are called to be His people, then to be His friends, and then we are made His sons. That is what God seeks in our worship and in our daily life.
Again, the idea of “let us” reveals how our worship must reflect the operation of divine unity as manifested in the tripartite mystery of the Trinity. Worship is mostly let us, than let me. As long as we serve the God that’s not divided against Himself, our worship of Him must bear testimony to our unity of the spirit. He makes us like Him. And He is never divided against Himself. He never denies His triune authority. Division and separation in our worship is not just a denial of our spirituality, but it’s a revelation of our fractured humanity. It is also in a way, an aspersion on the love of God. Therefore, “let us worship” is a invitation to fellowship, a call of unity and togetherness with other believers. It flows naturally when we worship a common maker and savior.
Furthermore, David gives us an earnest exhortation to incline ourselves in a prostrate posture, signifying humility before the Lord, and also a readiness to drink from Him. It comes as a result of submission — and that’s the primary significance of “bow down“. Because the One before whom we bow is not Haman; no, not Pharaoh, not Nebuchadnezzar, not the Pharisees, and not one of the rulers of this present age who exert, extort and usurp; but the Lord, who is our maker — the One under whose special care and government we live, move and hold our being. “For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if you will hear his voice harden not your heart, as in the provocation...” (v.v7, 8) Would we not, therefore, rather willingly yield this call? If your God is worthy to be adored, always rejoice at every call to His presence. Make gladsome haste to join with other believers in worshipping our good God, maker, savior, caller and giver of grace.
Quote for the Day: "The urge to worship is not supposed to be any extraordinary or external motivation; it must be the natural impulse of a genuine believer.” (Simon Olatunji)
Prayer: Dear Lord, as Augustine of Hippo prayed, I do pray today. “You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run;” in Jesus name. Amen.
With all my love and prayer,
Rev Simon Wale Olatunji, PhD
The Darling Bishop (DaBishop),
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