Have a wonderful weekend. Blessings,Lili
Psalm 95
1Come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us give a joyous shout to the rock of our salvation!2Let us come before him with thanksgiving. Let us sing him psalms of praise.3For the LORD is a great God, the great King above all gods.4He owns the depths of the earth, and even the mightiest mountains are his.5The sea belongs to him, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land, too.6Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the LORD our maker,7for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the sheep under his care. Oh, that you would listen to his voice today!8The LORD says, "Don't harden your hearts as Israel did at Meribah, as they did at Massah in the wilderness.9For there your ancestors tried my patience; they courted my wrath though they had seen my many miracles.10For forty years I was angry with them, and I said, 'They are a people whose hearts turn away from me. They refuse to do what I tell them.'11So in my anger I made a vow: 'They will never enter my place of rest.'"
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary -- www.christnotes.org)
"Commentary on Psalm 95:1-7
Whenever we come into God's presence, we must come with thanksgiving. The Lord is to be praised; we do not want matter, it were well if we did not want a heart. How great is that God, whose the whole earth is, and the fulness thereof; who directs and disposes of all!, The Lord Jesus, whom we are here taught to praise, is a great God; the mighty God is one of his titles, and God over all, blessed for evermore. To him all power is given, both in heaven and earth. He is our God, and we should praise him. He is our Saviour, and the Author of our blessedness. The gospel church is his flock, Christ is the great and good Shepherd of believers; he sought them when lost, and brought them to his fold.
Commentary on Psalm 95:7-11
Christ calls upon his people to hear his voice. You call him Master, or Lord; then be his willing, obedient people. Hear the voice of his doctrine, of his law, and in both, of his Spirit: hear and heed; hear and yield. Christ's voice must be heard to-day. This day of opportunity will not last always; improve it while it is called to-day. Hearing the voice of Christ is the same with believing. Hardness of heart is at the bottom of all distrust of the Lord. The sins of others ought to be warnings to us not to tread in their steps. The murmurings of Israel were written for our admonition. God is not subject to such passions as we are; but he is very angry at sin and sinners. That certainly is evil, which deserves such a recompence; and his threatenings are as sure as his promises. Let us be aware of the evils of our hearts, which lead us to wander from the Lord. There is a rest ordained for believers, the rest of everlasting refreshment, begun in this life, and perfected in the life to come. This is the rest which God calls his rest."
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