Call To Praise And Worship

 "Come, let us sing to YAHWEH,

let us make a joyful sound

to the Rock of our salvation.

Let us come before HIM giving thanks,

with music and songs of praise.

Come and worship; let us bow down,

kneel before YAHWEH, our Maker.

HE is our GOD, and we, HIS people;

the flock HE leads and pastures.

Would, that today, you heard HIS voice!

Do not be stubborn, as at Meribah,

in the desert, on that day at Massah,

when your ancestors challenged  ME,

and they put ME to the test."

- Psalm 95:1-2. 6-7. 7-9

(GOD claimed a double kingship over Israel.  She had been created and she had been chosen.  Here, she is invited to celebrate both creation and choice.  But she is warned, too.  The flock divinely led from Egypt had disputed with Moses and tested GOD's patience by its complaints.  We may still thwart the grace of our call--it does not inevitably blossom into the glory of final choice.  Our calling is much higher than Israel's.  From the people's point of view, our election, what we call perseverance, is more sublime.  Not Moses but JESUS, is our leader now, and the 'rest' HE would take us to is not Palestine but a land which the meek inherit, a rest which is the eternal Sabbath of GOD [Hebrews 4:10].  Pray to hear not 'Never shall they enter!' but 'Come, you blessed!')

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