He Is the Rock of Our Salvation
Psalm 95 opens with a compelling call to worship. It starts with the simple invitation of “Come!” Yes, we are to gather to worship our Lord. Though we can also worship him ourselves, the numbers in our corporate gathering multiply our praise.
We are to come together and sing, to gather for the purpose of praise. We’re to sing to the Lord God Almighty. We’re to sing for joy.
How often do we sing for the joy of it? More to the point, how often do we have joy in our hearts? As God’s children, we should have joy. But do we? If not, why?
God is the source of all joy. We receive joy from him. Then we give it back to him through our praise.
And if we lack joy, we should sing anyway. God deserves nothing less, regardless of how we feel. Yet, if we feel joy, we should praise him as the source of it.
Not only should we sing, we should also shout. For someone who struggles to carry a tune, the idea of shouting is something I can do. I can shout to the Lord in joy.
This emerges as a joyful noise (Psalm 100:1). I can do that. You can do that. Anyone can. We can all make a joyful noise to our God, regardless of how much musical talent we have—or don’t have.
He is the rock of our salvation. He is the foundation on which we place our hope.
This is another reason why we should sing for joy to the Lord. He has saved us. This is worthy of praise.
Yet we risk becoming nonchalant over his salvation. We can become too use to hearing that Jesus saves us. When this happens, we can lose sight of the amazing gift that it is, the gift of all gifts, the sacrifice to end all sacrifices.
Yet when we think of what Jesus has done for us—and is doing for us—it should fill us with overwhelming joy.
In this way, we will have no reason not to sing for joy to the Lord and shout to the rock of our salvation.
[Read through the Bible with us this year. Today’s reading is Psalm 91-95, and today’s post is on Psalms 95:1.]
Peter DeHaan writes about biblical Christianity to confront a status quo faith and live a life that matters. He seeks a fresh approach to following Jesus through the lens of Scripture, without the baggage of made-up traditions and meaningless practices.
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