#DailyDevotion Start Your Day With This Psalm For A Good Attitude
Psalm 95 Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD; let us shout happily to the Rock Who saves us. 2Let us come before Him with praise and shout happily to Him with psalms. 3The LORD is a great God, the great King above all gods.
Psalm 95 is used in Matins and Morning Prayer called the Venite (let us come). It is good first thing in the morning to come before the LORD and invite others to do so for worship. We have begun a new day that the LORD has made and He has brought us forth into it. We should look forward to the day with the LORD and sing joyfully to Him.
Jesus is the Rock, the LORD, who has saved us. He has brought us into His heavenly kingdom by His grace and mercy. He has given us life today to spread that kingdom far and wide, wherever our feet take us. Starting off the day with hymns, songs and psalms of praise will set our hearts, minds and souls in a good and right place. If you are kind of a sour person in the morning, which carries into the rest of the day, it may be a good practice for you to start off your day with this psalm.
Verse three, if we take it to heart will direct our day with this great principle of living: there is a God and you aren’t Him. I’m dead serious here. We spoil our day and the lives around us with an attitude that we are God and everything depends on us and what we do. When we recognize the LORD Jesus Christ is the great God, the King above all gods, our lives get simpler and what others do seems less drastic. We realize we are not in control of most everything including ourselves. It is Jesus who is responsible for everyone and everything. He is God. You are not.
4In His hand are the deep places of the earth; the mountain peaks are His; 5the sea is His — He made it, and His hands formed the dry land. 6Come, let us worship and bow down and kneel before the LORD Who made us. 7He is our God; we’re the people of His pasture, the flock of His hand.
As assurance that He is God and you are not, we have creation itself as a witness to this. He made everything by His word. From what He made He formed us from the dust of the earth. We are His flock, His people. Let Him be your God to whom you look to receive all good things from.
Today, hear if you will, His voice: 8“Don’t get stubborn as at Meribah, as on that day at Massah in the wilderness, 9where your fathers tested Me and tried Me out, although they had seen what I could do. 10For 40 years I was disgusted with those people; I said, ‘They’re a people whose hearts are going astray; they haven’t learned My ways.’ 11So in My anger I took a solemn oath: They will never come to My place of rest!”
Don’t grumble against the LORD as the Israelites did in the wilderness. Sure, bring your complaints and your need to Him trusting He wants to help and will help you. The Israelites grumbled because they did not trust the LORD to take care of them. Grumbling is an act of unbelief. Without faith it is impossible to please God. Because they did not believe, they did not enter His place of rest. They did not enter the Promised Land. Jesus is our Sabbath, our rest from our works. All who put their faith in Him as their great God and LORD for this life and the next enter His rest even now in our hearts, minds and souls. We trust He is taking care of us and will take care of us. He then will bring us into His eternal kingdom on the Last Day where we will live in peace on His pasture as His people, His faithful flock.
Heavenly Father, grant us faith to believe Jesus is our great God and King who takes care of us so we may rest in Him and in Him find peace and receive from Your hand every good and perfect gift. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.