Psalm 95:6-7 – Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; 7 for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.
Family and Friends, and all who would like to join, let us come to the Lord and bow down. Let us do it both in private and corporately. Let us focus on our blessings that vastly outnumber the hard events of our life. Let us thank God for parents, spouses, kids, grandkids, friends, jobs, shelter and for those who care and help. Let’s thank Him for warm days and for cool days, for the bright sunny days and for the days of relaxation on a porch watching the rain fall. Let’s thank God for beautiful music that makes us laugh and makes us cry. Let us thank God for this beautiful world that He created for us to live in. Let us thank God for His creativity in the clouds and for the way, like a whiteboard, He wipes it clean and makes the clouds look like something else. Thank the Lord for the dog, and yes cats (it happens!) that greet us at the door when we come home. They are always so happy to see us! Let us thank God for the good things we taste for the thousandth time and also for the first time. Let us thank God for people who see us and their eyes light up. Let’s thank God for the unexpected and precious call from a friend, or for the unexpected visit from a friend who we have not seen for such a long time. Let us revel in the blessings that others receive. Let us love the grandchild of a friend or acquaintance that is lovingly, and proudly, showing one of the joys of their hearts. Let’s thank God for the seemingly endless variety of flora and fauna. Let’s relive the time we saw a shooting star across a quiet, dark, but starlit night. Let us thank God for the changing seasons. Let us thank God for friends who forgive us. Let us thank God for giving us pastors that genuinely love us and pray for us even when we are not easy to love. Yes, the things to thank God for are endless. Most of all let us thank God that, in spite of us, He has loved us and paid the ultimate sacrifice for us all. Of all that we have to be thankful for, let us be thankful to Him, and to His Son Jesus Christ, and to His precious Holy Spirit.
So yes, let us bow down in humble appreciation to God and worship Him. Let us laugh and cry with Him who loves us with an unlimited love. Let’s kneel down before Him and acknowledge His wonderful majesty that is nothing He tries to do, He is just being Himself. Praise God! Shout it to the world! Open our windows and shout “Praise God” with complete abandon! Let’s do it because it is the Truth that lives within us. We are His people and He zealously and perfectly loves and watches over us. Let’s be thankful that He loves us, protects us and provides for us. And even, though God forbid, should we die of disease, or hunger, or some other undesired event, let our last words be “Praise God! He is good and He loves us!” He is our Shepherd, we are His flock. Is there anywhere else to be? Oh praise God! We love you Lord God Almighty! Always and forever may we thank you!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.