Psalm 95

God did not sleep last night. He was not cynical or depressed this morning. He does not have anything unanticipated that He really needs to learn today. His love for His people and His control over everything He has created are perfect again this morning. We should turn to Him. It would be right for us to forget ourselves for a moment, and find ourselves again in the wonder of Him. We should all worship the Lord.

He is worthy of our heartfelt praise. It is only sane, if we believe in the God who is, the God who alone deserves the title I-AM, the God who is the Creator, the God who redeemed us through His eternal Son taking on our flesh and dying for our sins... it is only sane, if we believe in the true and living God, that we should worship Him.

This great God has saved us. He is coming again with the fullness of salvation. Even right now, He is saving and keeping us. God knows us. He loves us. We should thank Him for His many blessings.

There is a heavenly host of powerful angelic beings, but the Lord is far above them all. There are many powerful rulers throughout the nations of the earth, but they cannot compare with the Almighty One. He is the King over every power among men and angels. Nothing can be a god over Him.

If we go up to the highest mountain and are able to make it to the top, He is God there. If we were able to travel to the bottom of the deepest ocean, at that lowest point, the Lord is God.

To think that He counts us as His treasured possession... Why would He bother with us? But He does love us. He is the Good Shepherd. He laid down His life for His sheep. We are still His chosen flock today. He has promised to stay with us, to keep us, and to feed us.

What is outrageously shocking is that we would harden our hearts toward Him.

Today if you hear His voice, you should receive His Word with a full heart of devotion, and you should love and obey Him.

His voice goes out all over the earth. It is present in all that He has created. He created you. His voice is in you. He made your body and your mind. He gave you a soul, a heart, a will, and a conscience.

He also spoke by His Holy Spirit through the prophets. He caused His Word to be written down, copied, and preserved through many centuries. Even this psalm is a part of His Word, so He is speaking a word to you as you read this ancient song.

In His written Word, He tells us about His people Israel as they were led through the wilderness. He warns us that they would not hear His voice, but hardened their hearts. An entire generation would not listen to Him, though they had seen His signs and wonders.

These were our forefathers in the faith, the people of the Lord, but in their time of distress and testing, they would not follow the Lord. This psalm says that the Lord loathed them for forty years. How is that possible? We know that they died in the wilderness. They were not permitted to enter the Promised Land. Where are they now?

Even Moses himself was one of them. Even he was not allowed to enter Canaan. He went to heaven instead.

How is it that someone who was denied entrance into the land of rest on earth would be received into the land of rest in heaven? It could only be because of Jesus.

Moses came back to earth at the transfiguration of Jesus. He and Elijah spoke to the Lord about His coming departure. That departure would take place in an awful death. A perfect atoning sacrifice would be offered for the Lord's sheep. That was how Moses was saved. That was also how you and I were saved. The just wrath of God was taken for us by His beloved Son, Jesus.

We should worship the Lord today.

We should hear His voice and follow Him. That is the only way that we can grow in the knowledge of the One who made us and saved us.