PS 95:1 “Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.” 

An invitation to praise:
“Nothing breaketh my heart, but that I cannot get the daughters of Jerusalem to tell them of my Bridegroom's glory. I charge you in the name of Christ that ye tell all that ye come to of it, and yet it is above telling and understanding.” (Samuel Rutherford)

PS 95:6 “Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.”


An invitation to submission and humble worship:


“Here is the path to the higher life. Down, lower down! This was what Jesus always said to his disciples who were thinking of being great in the Kingdom. See to it that you abase and humble yourselves, and take no place before God and man but that of a servant. That is your work. Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and bless. He that humbles himself will be exalted; that is God's care. By His mighty power and in His great love He will do it.” (Andrew Murray)

PS 95:8 “Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert.”


Do the promises to the Israelites apply to Christians today? “In Adam’s fall we sinned all,” the sins of the Israelites are in some sense our sins, too, so we may also claim their promises and their covenant, if we fulfil the conditions.

PS 95:11 So I declared on oath in my anger, "They shall never enter my rest."


HEB 4:1 “Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith. Now we who have believed enter that rest.”

The best way to keep the Sabbath is to keep it every day, all day, by being in God’s rest, through faith.

God bless you,
Lee Merrill