M-W-F Bible study: Psalm 100

Good morning, friends!

There's an area of my spiritual life that I'm working on these days. I'm just so tired in the early morning hours. But I want to be alert, and have God at the forefront of my mind in these hours. I have asked God to make my mind and heart ready each morning when I awake, so that I may not just start my own life with Him front and center, but I might offer prayer and spiritual support with my kids, in the early hours, as they head out the door for the day.

I make sure that they're ready for the cold weather, asking if they have hat, mittens and scarves, but I have left off asking if they've dedicated their day to God. This is an area I want to change for our family.

Have a blessed day,
Lili



Psalm 100

1A psalm of thanksgiving. Shout with joy to the LORD, O earth!2Worship the LORD with gladness. Come before him, singing with joy.3Acknowledge that the LORD is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.4Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and bless his name.5For the LORD is good. His unfailing love continues forever, and his faithfulness continues to each generation.
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary -- www.christnotes.org)

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An exhortation to praise God, and rejoice in him.

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 soever 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."