Create in Me a Clean Heart: The 40-Day Challenge (Psalms)Sample

Come Into His Presence with Thanksgiving

Psalm 95:1-7

The world seems out of control. Accidents, natural disasters, and wars happen. In whose hands is such a world? The world and history are not in the hands of fate, chaos, or chance.

On the contrary, God leads this world with a desire that humanity would constantly live in righteous and faithful relationships. “He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his faithfulness.”

We are God’s hands, and we move through everyday life with the confidence that He will not let us go. God’s word calls us to rejoice in challenges, and praise God in troubles - because it is God who calms every wind, every storm.

The words of Psalm 95 say: “come, make a joyful noise” and “come, let us worship and bow down.” It is a call to worship and to praise God for his greatness, power and care for his people. The Word of God calls us to a simple movement. Let’s come. Where to?

God wants to have fellowship with us, he wants to rejoice with us. There is only one thing left for us. Let’s come and worship him. And in these imperfections of ours, in these attempts of ours, He, our God, wants to guide us, wants to love us, wants to encourage us.

Before us is such a simple step. Let’s come, make a joyful noise, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, and thank Him. We don’t bow to our deeds, nor to some institutions, nor individuals, but to our God. Why? “For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.”