Prayer:
Come, let us bow down in
worship. Let us kneel before the Lord
our Maker. For You are our God and we
are the people of Your pasture and the flock under Your care. Amen.
Read Psalm
95:2
This Psalm is often considered a psalm to be sung
during the New Year. God is Creator
and LORD of the universe. Verses 1 -7
are a hymn that the congregation sung preparing their hearts for worship—Come
let us sing for joy to the LORD. The
people come with joy to worship. How do
we come to worship each Sunday? Do we
come with joy in our hearts?
Verses 7b – 8
remind the congregation that they must not harden their hearts against
God as they did at Meribah. In Numbers
20: 1 – 13 we read of the story of the hardening of hearts at Meribah. Moses and the people were now in the
desert. The people were thirsty and
began to whine and complain that they should have died in Egypt instead of
wandering around in the desert. Aaron
and Moses went into the Tent of Meeting and fell facedown to worship God. God told Moses and Aaron to gather the people
around then rock. Then Moses was to take his staff and hit the rock once and
water would come out of the rock. Moses
does almost as God says but the whining and complaining of the people ticked
him off so greatly that he whacked the rock twice. Then God said to Moses and Aaron, “Because
you did not trust in me enough to honour me as
Holy in the sight of the Israelites,
you will not bring this community into the land I give them.” (Numbers 20: 12 NIV
Zondervan, 1983).
Do we harden our hearts today instead of living with
thanksgiving in God’s presence? Today,
think and meditate how our Churches can live with thanksgiving in each
community so that each community knows that the Church loves God with all joy
in believing.
The three things I am thankful for today are:
Prayer: Today
if we hear Your voice O God, we will
answer with joy and delight. We will
raise our hearts in praise and our voices in song. We thank You for this day and for the
experiences we will have in this day.
This we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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