Not A Coincidence

Psalm 100

A Psalm of Praise.

Sing ye loud unto the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before him with joyfulnes. Know ye that even the Lord is God: he hath made us, and not we our selves: we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with praise, and into his courts with rejoicing: praise him and bless his Name. For the Lord is good: his mercy is everlasting, and his truth is from generation to generation.

Psalms 100:1-5 GNV

According to Substack records this is my one hundreth post.And though it seems coincidental that this post is on Psalms 100 there are other reasons I don't see it that way, reasons that would seemly make it to be even more coincidental.

It seems only right this Psalm be next for me. Many of my meditations have been what some may find more "technical" details surrounding the the psalm instead as might better to think on the "substance" of the psalm. Being familiar as Psalm 100 is and often used as a Thanksgiving psalm, some might even have a plaque or picture in their home on their wall of the entire psalm. For myself at this time in my meditation the timing is impeccable. My meditations of recent were typically taking a singular thought from each psalm, looking at how it was working on some part of my life, something God had from that psalm to make me see and let Him work at even deeper at that time. But as I read each Psalm, these recent psalms it really dug down deep in me that I didn't have the same heart enthusiasm as the writer of the psalm, not seeing the Lord in everything that was said of Him throughout the psalm. So the previous post on "Come, See Me" was very important, very significant to address that. As a friend told me to often we do miss the technical details. We get so engrossed in learning how one verse relates to another we miss how it should be interacting with our own hearts and lives. Certainly whenever we read Scripture the Holy Spirit can use every little bit we read to speak to us, change us. But praise, or I should say the feelings of praise for the varied attributes of God as is given within these Psalms isn't something just conjured up inside, but definitely out of observing God's working in our life. Then the emotion comes. In a way it asks to the point, do we have a song of praise to sing because we have words and a catchy tune, or do we have a song to sing of praise because we have known God's work in our lives. The concern is real to me as I remember looking back.

[7] And the people had served the Lord al the days of Joshua, and all the days of the Elders that outlived Joshua, which had seen all the great works of the Lord that he did for Israel.

[10] And so all that generation was gathered unto their fathers, and another generation arose after them, which neither knew the Lord, nor yet the works, which he had done for Israel.

Judges 2:7, 10 GNV

This great memorable Psalm is actually a call to action. It isn't just saying great things about God, it is a challenge for us to come into His presence with praising Him forcthose very things. Just get started. Get started.

What is the problem then? Why? Whether Psalm 32, 51, psalms of confession, or Psalm 88, a psalm of despair, Psalm 4, 6, 13, 35, 62, 74, 79, 80, 82, 89, 90, 94, HOW LONG LORD??? Yes, any of these can be followed with an invitation to come before His presence, to rejoice joyfully, but greatest of all to know that even the Lord, He Is God! No, it's not a readily immediate switch, but it is a goal to reach from wherever you are, and however low you are and distant God may seem to be, still and always the invitation is there. As my last post it seemed the Lord Himself was had told me "Come, see me". It isn't a coincidence then that one moment I am struggling with seeing past how in so many ways I see technical relationships to life from each Psalm, reading each Psalm knowing that there are very special praises and ways of glorifying our great God. And then being called to "Come, see me" The have this Psalm as my next, not just to see Him, but to enter into His gates, and into His courts. God Himself wants me to see Him, know Him, and rightly glorify Him. No, no coincidence at all.