Week 40
Come, Let Us Worship
Psalm 95
“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.”
Psalm 95 (NKJV)
Psalm 95 begins with a shared invitation: come, let us sing. Worship gathers scattered people into one glad response before the rock of salvation.
We enter with thanksgiving because grace precedes our song. God has already become our salvation before we bring Him praise.
The reason for worship is who God is: the great King above every power, holding earth’s depths and mountain heights, sea and dry land alike.
Then exuberant praise becomes reverent bowing. Biblical worship includes both joyful sound and surrendered posture because the transcendent King is also our Maker.
‘We are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.’ Majesty does not erase tenderness. The One before whom we kneel is the Shepherd who carries and guides His people.
The psalm suddenly turns: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.’ Worship that sings without listening remains incomplete.
Israel had seen God’s works yet tested Him in the wilderness. Familiarity with holy things can coexist with resistance unless praise opens into trust and obedience.
Come with your voice, body, memory, and will. Sing because He saves, bow because He made you, listen because He speaks, and obey while His invitation is still called today.
In Conversation with A. W. Tozer
Tozer taught that spiritual disorder begins when the creature occupies the center that belongs to the Creator. Worship restores truth by placing God first in attention, affection, and allegiance.
Psalm 95 makes that restoration concrete: grateful praise, bodily reverence, shepherded belonging, attentive listening, and obedient response.
A Prayer
Holy God,
Great King and gentle Shepherd, receive the praise of the people You have saved.
Restore the true order of my heart. Teach me to sing with gratitude, bow with reverence, and listen without resistance.
Keep my heart tender today, and let worship become willing obedience to Your voice. Amen.
Dwell This Week with God
Awaken to His presence.
Return often to Psalm 95. Read without hurry, and allow the truth of who God is to become larger than every lesser concern.