Day 25 – Wednesday
Read Psalm 100
Psalm 100 is a Psalm of praise, a Psalm of thanksgiving. It is a Psalm of worship. I challenge you to memorize it today. It won’t take long. It’s only five verses long. It’s a great Psalm to have ready in your head. Here is what Marva Dawn says about worship:
Worship ought not to be construed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our churches to be seen as successful. Rather, the entire reason for our worship is that God deserves it. Moreover, it isn’t even useful for earning points with God, for what we do in worship won’t change one whit how God feels about us. We will always still be helpless sinners caught in our endless inability to be what we should be or to make ourselves better – and God will always still be merciful, compassionate, and gracious, abounding in steadfast love and ready to forgive us as we come to him.
Worship is a royal waste of time, but indeed it is royal, for it immerses us in the regal splendor of the King of the cosmos. The church’s worship provides opportunities for us to enjoy God’s presence in corporate ways that take us out of time and into the eternal purposes of God’s kingdom. As a result, we shall be changed – but not because of anything we do. God, on whom we are centered and to whom we submit, will transform us by his Revelation of himself.
Psalm 100 nicely lays out the reason for worship: We worship because God is God. I know that most days that doesn’t seem like enough. There are many days in which you probably go through the hustle and bustle of life and the thought of God never enters your radar. We are often on auto pilot. Psalm 100 seems too simple. It doesn’t ask all the difficult questions that the other Psalms seem to ask. But, maybe it is good to be reminded that God deserves to be worshiped just because He is God – “It is he who made us and we are His…. Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name. For the LORD is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.”
Prayer
Use your prayer time today to memorize Psalm 100.
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