Bible in a Year Series - Day
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Today's text from the ESV Study Bible: Psalms 95, & 97-99.
Today's reading finds us in what are by some called the "Psalms of the Great King" (Psalms 93-100).
They celebrate the fact that God is our King.
Sorrowfully, as I read this verse,
"Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel
before the Lord, our Maker!" (Psalm 95:6)
there seemed to be this open rebellion in my heart.
Part of me seemed to be screaming, "NO!...I am not going to bow down before any Lord!"
I am certain that this could mean a number of things:
- I am not a brainless, follower of some religion. I will fight for understanding and truth.
- That there is indeed a constant inner struggle with my fallen nature who desires at all costs to be king of my life.
- That there is the constant drone of the Great Bastard (Jonathan Edward's name for Satan) in confederation with my fallen nature to drive me off the narrow way, constantly proclaiming, "there is no God!".
- That I must constantly don the armor of which Paul speaks in Ephesians 6.
- and finally, as King David has taught me, I must command my soul to follow God.
Oh my Soul, grab tight the stonework of God's eternal fountain. Never let go!
