Psalm 95:1-11 O come, let us sing to the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. I. A CALL TO PRAISE (vers. 1, 2, 6). Our call to praise and thanksgiving leads on, as we should expect such an one as David to teach us, to prayer. We praise for evidences of His nature, and such praise must lead us to pray that His attributes may find their exercise towards us; that He will deal with us as His perfect nature has dealt with other generations and other people. We offer thanks for the past, and every past mercy is ground of prayer for future mercies; every received mercy is a ground of hope upon which we build our prayers for new mercies. II. THE CAUSES WHICH DEMAND OUR PRAISE. 1. He is not only the Author of oar salvation, but He has made it strong, firm, immovable, resting upon Him, the Rock of Ages (vers. 1, 2). 2. We praise God for permitting us to observe His greatness; for the power to know Him in His works. It is not until we begin to examine the details of Creation — plants, birds, insects — to use the telescope upon the heavens, or the microscope upon invisible objects — that every single work, in itself a wonder, helps us to look up awestruck to the One Mind which made and which sustains all. 3. His individual care for each of us (ver. 7). III. A CAUTION AGAINST THE LOSS OF THE ACCEPTED TIME (vers. 7-10). Alas! we have daily teaching like the men in the wilderness, that the chastened may only harden themselves against the hand of love which chastens! And poverty and sickness, by which God seeks to draw His children to Him, and to purify them for Himself, are made the very grounds for neglecting and disobeying Him! IV. REJECTION COULD NOT FINALLY PASS UNPUNISHED. There was a sentence upon those despisers (ver. 11). God's truth requires that His promises should be as sure to His opposers as to His followers and friends; and the sentence will follow. They could not enter into God's offered rest, as Paul explains to the Romans, on account of unbelief. (D. Laing, M.A.) Parallel Verses KJV: O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.WEB: Oh come, let's sing to Yahweh. Let's shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! |
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