YHWH does not change.
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Thanksgiving is public praise of God in the assembly of saints for His wondrous nature and mighty works.
Read morePSALM 104 — REVISED
God greatness and power are demonstrated in His creation of all things.
Read morePSALM 103 — REVISED
While mankind is transitory and finite, God is eternal and unchanging in His love towards His saints.
Read morePSALM 102 — REVISED
What can we do in light of our frailty and the wickedness around us?
Read morePSALM 101 — REVISED
Focusing ones’s affections on the Lord and walking obediently to His word in the power of the Spirit is the only way you can live a life of integrity.
Read morePSALM 100 — REVISED
To bless the name of the Lord is to give YHWH public praise that elevates Him in the minds of others.
Read morePSALM 99 — REVISED
Worship Our Holy God
This is an enthronement psalm that pictures the Lord taking up His Davidic throne and ruling the earth from Jerusalem (Zech 14:9). The main point of this psalm is that the Lord is holy and should be exalted.
The first section of the psalm introduces the idea: Our Holy God is Great (1-3). All the peoples of the earth are called to fear YHWH (1). Christ is King, and one day will rule His creation physically from Zion (2). Everyone should praise the awesome and great name of the Lord (2-3). Holy is He!
The second section continues: Our Holy God is Just (4-5). The King loves justice, and His strength is exerted in establishing what He loves (4). The Lord will establish and sustain a just and righteous society over all the earth (4-5).
The third section continues: Our Holy God is Merciful (6-9). God responded in the past to the cries of His priests on behalf of the people (6). He gave them His Law, which governed the behaviour of His people so that they would be a holy people (7). Even when they continually went astray, God forgave them. Yet the consequences of their sins they could not escape; for God is a just God (8). Worship Him alone, for our God is holy (9).
Brethren, three times the psalmist calls God “holy.” Three times all people are called to praise Him for His works and for His perfections. God is utterly separate from anything in His creation. He is perfect and distinct from any created thing. He is great and awesome in His power. He is just and righteous in His actions. He is merciful in His love for His people, forgiving our sins. Worship Him for holy is YHWH our God!
PSALM 98 — REVISED
The psalmist is calling upon God’s people and all the world to celebrate the Lord.
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O Sovereign Lord,
Thou art the Creator-Father of all men, for thou has made and dost support them;
Thou art the special Father of those who know, love and honour thee, who find thy yoke easy, and thy burden light, thy work honourable, thy commandments glorious.
But how little that undeserved goodness has affected me! How imperfectly I have improved my religious privileges! How negligent have I been in doing good to others!
I am before thee in my trespasses and sins, have mercy on me, and may thy goodness bring me to repentance.
Help me to hate and forsake every false way, to be attentive to my condition and character, to bridle my tongue, to keep my heart with all diligence, to watch and pray against temptation, to mortify sin, to be concerned for the salvation of others.
Oh God, I cannot endure to see the destruction of my kindred.
Let those that are united to me in tender ties be precious in thy sight and devoted to thy glory.
Sanctify and prosper my domestic devotion, instruction, discipline, example, that my house may be a nursery for heaven, my church the garden of the Lord, enriched with trees of righteousness of thy planting, for thy glory;
Let not those of my family who are amiable, moral, attractive, fall short of heaven at last;
Grant that the promising appearances of a tender conscience, soft heart, the alarms and delights of thy Word, be not finally blotted out, but bring forth judgment unto victory in all whom I love.
—From Valley of Vision