Post by Katie on May 7, 2010 16:08:06 GMT -6
This week's main Scripture is Psalm 100. You can read it here: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20100&version=NIV
Go back and take note of the seven commands in verses 1-4. They are shout for joy, worship the Lord with gladness, come before Him with joyful songs, know that the Lord is God, enter His gates with thanks and His courts with praise, give thanks to Him, and praise His name. These commands are filled with the attitudes of true worship-- gladness, joy, thanksgiving and praise.
The central command is found in verse 3 which says:
"Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture."
Wrapped up in that one verse are the reasons that we worship him. It always shows that worship is, as the quotes we saw in the "Definitions" post say, a response. It is in our knowledge of his power that created us and the knowledge of his loving possession of us that calls us to respond in worship with gladness and joy and thanksgiving and praise. He is our loving Shepherd.
Verse 5 tells us more about why we worship God.
"For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations."
What better reasons to love and serve and worship our God than that his love was first bestowed upon us and will be forever?
Discussion Questions:
1)What does this psalm tell us about who we are and who God is?
2)How does true worship connect these two?
3)What timeless principles can we gather about worship from these verses?
Go back and take note of the seven commands in verses 1-4. They are shout for joy, worship the Lord with gladness, come before Him with joyful songs, know that the Lord is God, enter His gates with thanks and His courts with praise, give thanks to Him, and praise His name. These commands are filled with the attitudes of true worship-- gladness, joy, thanksgiving and praise.
The central command is found in verse 3 which says:
"Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture."
Wrapped up in that one verse are the reasons that we worship him. It always shows that worship is, as the quotes we saw in the "Definitions" post say, a response. It is in our knowledge of his power that created us and the knowledge of his loving possession of us that calls us to respond in worship with gladness and joy and thanksgiving and praise. He is our loving Shepherd.
Verse 5 tells us more about why we worship God.
"For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations."
What better reasons to love and serve and worship our God than that his love was first bestowed upon us and will be forever?
Discussion Questions:
1)What does this psalm tell us about who we are and who God is?
2)How does true worship connect these two?
3)What timeless principles can we gather about worship from these verses?