Read Psalm 95

Monday

 

Read Psalm 95

Come, let us praise the Lord!

Let us sing for joy to God, who protects us!

²Let us come before him with thanksgiving

and sing joyful songs of praise.

³For the Lord is

a mighty God, a mighty king over all the gods.

⁴He rules over the whole earth,

from the deepest caves to the highest hills.

⁵He rules over the sea, which he made;

the land also, which he himself formed.

⁶Come, let us bow down and worship him;

let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

⁷He is our God;

we are the people he cares for,

the flock for which he provides.

Listen today to what he says:

⁸“Don’t be stubborn, as your ancestors were at Meribah,

as they were that day in the desert at Massah.

⁹There they put me to the test and tried me,

although they had seen what I did for them.

¹⁰For forty years I was disgusted with those people.

I said, ‘How disloyal they are!

They refuse to obey my commands.’

¹¹I was angry and made a solemn promise:

‘You will never enter the land

where I would have given you rest.’ ”

Think

The Psalmist reminds us that God is all powerful and all seeing.  He then reminds us that we are the people he cares for - his sheep.  It is in our interest to put our trust in God.

Pray

Lord help me not to be stubborn - but to trust you along the paths on which you lead me.