Hi
God is worthy of our praise, in modern worship it is so often about lifting up our hands, being hallelujah focused, looking up to God. There is a place for exuberance and I must admit to enjoying being one who enjoys this, equally there is a place for quietness, for humbleness, for getting down on our knees before our God, for reverence, all of which the Lord requires. Over the past few weeks I have been re-acquainting myself with the powerful judgement scene in Micah 6, and again have felt challenged by verse 8 – he has shown you o Man what is good, and what does the Lord require of you … but to love mercy, justice, to walk humbly with your God.
This psalm gives many of the characteristics of God, he is the rock of our salvation, Great God, King above all other Gods, everything belongs to him, he is the shepherd we are the people of his pasture. Does this not require us to worship and bow down?
Psalm 95 vs. 1-7 – Come Let Us Sing For Joy To The Lord
Come let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the rock of our salvation
Let us come before him with worship and thanksgiving and extol him with music and song
For as we come into his house he is worthy of our praise, our love and adoration
For it is as we turn our eyes upon him, and focus on him we can let go of that which is wrong
The things which surround disappear when we give to him our praise and confession
He desires that we reach toward him, that we seek what is on his heart through music and song
Through quietness and prayer, God stands at the door and knocks we need to let him in
Let us come before him with worship and thanksgiving and extol him with music and song
For the Lord is the great God, the great king above all Gods. In his hands are the depths of the earth,
And the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it; and his hands formed the dry land
All creation is his, he formed and made it, yet he knows us each by name, even from before our birth
He who made the seas and mountains also uniquely formed and first loved us, he does us understand
He is the shepherd who knows our every need, who protects and guides us as we journey on this earth
We need to hold into that which he has promised us, for he formed us, and his hands formed the dry land
Come let us bow down and worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
For he is our God, and we are the people of the pasture, the flock under his care
He knows us each by name and is acquainted with all our needs is our caretaker
We need to know his voice and follow his commands and to keep to him near
For if we draw near to him, he will draw near to us and we can know our Maker
And the plans he has for us which give us a future, about us he does really care
Come let us bow down and worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker
For he is our God, and we are the people of the pasture, the flock under his care
Mark Maffey, August 2008
(NIV)