SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
6/29/2012 6:58:34 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Psalm 100
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Psalm 100:1-2
Message of the verses: In today’s Spiritual Diary we will begin to
look at Psalm 100 by looking at several introductions from different Bible
Commentators, and then we will begin to look at the psalm.
“-This song
of praise should be considered as a prophecy, and even used as a prayer, for
the coming of that time when all people shall know that the Lord he is God, and
shall become his worshippers, and the sheep of his pasture. Great encouragement
is given us, in worshipping God, to do it cheerfully. If, when we strayed like
wandering sheep, he has brought us again to his fold, we have indeed abundant
cause to bless his name. The matter of praise, and the motives to it, are very
important. Know ye what God is in himself, and what he is to you. Know it;
consider and apply it, then you will be more close and constant, more inward
and serious, in his worship. The covenant of grace set down in the Scriptures
of the Old and New Testament, with so many rich promises, to strengthen the
faith of every weak believer, makes the matter of God’s praise and of his
people’s joys so sure, that how sad so ever our spirits may be when we look to
ourselves, yet we shall have reason to praise the Lord when we look to his
goodness and mercy, and to what he has said in his word for our comfort.” (Matthew Henry)
“TITLE. A
Psalm of Praise; or rather of thanksgiving. This is the only psalm bearing this
precise inscription. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration, and has for this
reason been a great favourite with the people of God ever since it was written.
"Let us sing the Old Hundredth" is one of the every-day expressions
of the Christian church, and will be so while men, exist whose hearts are loyal
to the Great King. Nothing can be more sublime this side heaven than the
singing of this noble psalm by a vast congregation. Watts’ paraphrase,
beginning "Before Jehovah’s awful throne," and the Scotch "All
people that on earth do dwell," are both noble versions; and event Tare
and Brady rise beyond themselves when they sing —
"With one consent let all the earth
To God their cheerful voices raise."
In this divine lyric we sing with gladness the creating
power and goodness of the Lord, even as before with trembling we adored his
holiness.” (Charles H. Spurgeon)
“This
well-known psalm, emphasizing the universal nature of God’s kingship, is a
benediction to the series of psalm which are occupied with the Lord’s kingdom
rule (Pss. 93, 95-100). Most of it is a
call to praise and thanksgiving while vv. 3 and 5 fi the reasons for that worship.” (John MacArthur Study Bible)
“For
centuries, Christian congregations have sung William Kethe’s paraphrase of this
psalm, wedded to the beloved tune ‘Old Hundredth.’ First ppublished in 1561,
the words summarize the message of the psalm and help the worshipers give
thanks to the Lord. Sometimes the
traditional ‘Doxology’ (‘Praise God from whom all blessings flow’) by Thomas
Ken is sung as the last verse. The psalm
is a fitting climax to the collection of ‘royal psalms’ (93, 95-100) and sums
up their emphasis on God’s sovereign rule, His goodness to His people, the
responsibility of all nations to acknowledge Him, and the importance of God
people exalting and worshiping Him (See 95:1-2, 6-7.)
“We
admonished in Ephesians 5:18 to be filled with the Spirit of God, and the
evidence of this fullness is that we are joyful (5:19), thankful (5:20), and
submissive (5:21-6:9). In Colossians
3:16-25, we are instructed to be filled with the Word of God, and when we are,
we will be joyful (3:16), thankful (3:17), and submissive (3:20-25). These three characteristics of the believer
controlled by God’s Spirit and God’s Word—and they go together—are presented in
this wonderful psalm of thanksgiving.”
(Warren Wiersbe)
Joyful (vv. 1-2): “1 ¶
«A Psalm for Thanksgiving.» Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth.
2 Serve the LORD with gladness; Come
before Him with joyful singing.”
We have been going over what
Warren Wiersbe calls the “Royal Psalms” which as noted above in different
places are Psalms 93, 95-100. We worship
God as King in these psalms and the psalms were not only written for the
children of Israel, but for all of the nations, for indeed God is King over all
the earth. It was part of Israel’s job
in knowing the One True God to tell other nations about Him, but the sad fact
is that this did not get done very well, and not only did it not get done very
well, but many of the Jews actually had a hatred for the Gentiles. Of course this was not right, and when the
Lord Jesus came to earth He spoke to different peoples like the woman at the
well who was a Samaritan, and He also went to speak to a woman who had a child
who was demon possessed in Mark 7 and then healed other Gentiles there
too. My point in all of this is that
this psalm and the others mentioned is directed to all of the nations that they
might worship the Lord and understand that He is King. Today the Church has this responsibility to
go and preach the Gospel to all the earth which is the “Great Commission,” that
Jesus spoke of at the end of Matthews Gospel.
As we look
at the first two verses of this psalm we see that the psalm is a psalm of
thanksgiving and that we are to shout joyfully to the Lord, all of the nations
are to do this, and will do this in Christ’s kingdom one day. We are to serve the Lord and be glad we can serve
Him, for this is a great privilege. Dr.
Wiersbe writes about our shouting to the Lord, “our shouting ought to lead to
serving Him, for He is the only true God (Deut. 6:13; 10:12; Josh.
24:15-24). Worship leads to service, and
true service is worship. If we sing in
the Spirit and with understanding, our songs are received in heaven as
sacrifices to the Lord (Heb. 13:15).” “Through
Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is,
the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I suppose that my worship of the Lord when it
comes to shouting does not happen a lot because I am more of a laid back kind
of person, and my worship of the Lord does come with singing, for I love the
wonderful old hymns, and love to sing them because of their great meaning. My worship of the Lord is also in doing my
Spiritual Diaries as I love to study the Word of God.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: Continue to abide in the vine
as Jesus spoke of in John 15.
Memory verses for the week:
2Peter 1:1-3
1.
Simon Peter,
a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a fait
of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus
Christ: 2. Grace and peace be multiplied
to you in the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord; 3. Seeing that His divine
power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through
the true knowledge of Him who called us by His glory and excellence.
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