A CALL TO WORSHIP

Today is Sunday, which many call it as the LORD’s Day, and rightly so. It is a day of rest and reflection. A day to cease from all our works, and ponder upon the LORD, His goodness, and His grace. A time pause and ponder about life and the life Giver.

The Word of God has some insights and inspiration on the subject of pausing and pondering to praising and worshipping God. Psalm 95:1-3 has some very filtered wisdom for a Sunday – “​1 Oh come, let us sing to the LORD! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. 2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. 3 For the LORD is the great God, And the great King above all gods.”

In verses 6-7 more insights are given to us – “6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. 7 For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand…”

The purpose of this Psalm is not just to call us to praise and worship the LORD God Almighty. There is another aspect to such a time of “Pause and Ponder.” All our praise and worship of our LORD, should and must lead us to obedience.* If it doesn’t, *then the whole act of our praise and worship becomes, truly a mere act, and nothing more.

The words of the LORD, His concerns and thoughts in verses are presented to us in 7b-10. It is clearly, a repeat of His instructions for us, which are about, what is required from us…may be, what is lacking in us – “…Today, if you will hear His voice: 8 “Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, As in the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 When your fathers tested Me; They tried Me, though they saw My work. 10 For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.’”

The LORD’s Day is a day to praise, thank and worship our LORD. It is a time to pause and reflect, upon all that our Redeemer has done for us. It is a time to get our act together. It is time to seek the LORD to help us obey Him, in all things, and follow Him faithfully. May our Creator and Redeemer bless our Sunday, and help us to live for Him, and Him alone.