O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and the dry land, which his hands have formed. O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would listen to his voice! Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness, when your ancestors tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work. For forty years I loathed that generation and said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they do not regard my ways.’ Therefore in my anger I swore, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’ (Psalm 95, NRSV)
Make a joyful noise to the Lord. Come into His presence with thanksgiving and praise His holy name!
Just thinking about all the things God has done for me makes me want to sing! I can’t help but praise Him, even if it seems like everything around me is falling apart, because when I get right down to it, He has done more good things for me than things are going wrong now.
That is what the psalmist is getting at here. If we really just took a moment and did an evaluation of things, we would find more good things from God than things that are going wrong and that is reason to sing!
One of my former pastors always said if you sing well sing loud, because God like to hear you sing, and if you don’t sing well sing even louder to annoy the person next to you, because God really loves hearing a joyfilled noise! And that is what our singing is when we realize all He has done for us, a joyfilled noise!
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