The Lord Be With You Today!
Psalm 95:1 – 7
Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
(As we look to this season of Thanks-Giving,
the psalmist gives us a fitting exhortation today
to worship the Lord with loud and exuberant shouts
of grateful acknowledgement of Him Who is our foundation
and of His salvation that provides refuge and sanctuary
from the power and curse of sin.
Our praise is not only received by the Lord,
but He encourages us to let our own praise
be an impetus that urges others
to focus on and praise the Lord as well.)
Let us come before Him with thanksgiving
and extol Him with music and song.
(He invites us to approach Him and, when we do,
His praise bursts forth from us in spontaneous worship.)
For the Lord is the great God,
the great King above all gods.
(As we acknowledge our Great God, we look to Him
as the awesome and mighty Creator,
our Benefactor Who bestows His blessings and benefits on us.
More than anything our minds can comprehend,
He is the Lord. Period.
Not a worthless idol, not just an unhearing and uncaring
block of wood or metal, not just a nice idea,
not just some element to which we give our attention and focus.
He exists and acts beyond our human existence or impact.)
In His Hand are the depths of the earth,
(As Creator, He formed and molded the earth
from its very center to all that surrounds it above
and holds His vast creation in and under the control of His Hand.)
and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
The sea is His, for He made it,
and His Hands formed the dry land.
(As Overlord, as Ruler, He owns the treasures of the summits,
the sea and its endless flow as well as its creatures,
and the continental masses and all that live on the earth.)
Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
for He is our God and we are the people of His pasture,
the flock under His care.
(As we worship and extol Him for the Great God He is,
He continues to gather us to Himself to bless us and care for us
and to extend His mercy and grace to us.
When we look to His great blessings, both spiritual and material,
our hearts turn to rejoicing as we sing and dance and shout before Him
with the praise that He alone is due!)
May the Lord richly bless you this day!
In Christ's love,
Blessings!
Sally
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