Devotional for March 22

St. Paul's UMC - Raymore, Missouri

Read Psalms 94-96

 

Psalm 95 (The Voice)

 

¹ Come, let us worship in song, a joyful offering to the Eternal. Shout! Shout with joy to the rock of our liberation. ² Come face-to-face with God, and give thanks; with loud and joyful voices, praise Him in songs.

³ For the Eternal is a great God, and a great King, supreme over all gods. ⁴ Within His control are the very depths of the earth; the mountaintops too—they all belong to Him. ⁵ The sea belongs to Him, for He created it—scooped and filled it in—with His hands He made the dry land—every valley and mountain.

⁶ Come, let us worship Him. Everyone bow down; kneel before the Eternal who made us. ⁷ For He is our God and we are His people, the flock of His pasture, His sheep protected and nurtured by His hand. Today, if He seeks, hear His voice.

⁸ “Don’t harden your hearts the way they did in the bitter uprising at Meribah or like that day they complained in the wilderness of Massah. ⁹ Your ancestors tested Me, wanted Me to prove Myself though they had seen that nothing was too great for Me. ¹⁰ For 40 years I despised that grumbling generation and said, ‘Their hearts are    unfaithful; they no longer walk in My ways; though I call, they do not listen to My voice.’¹¹ That is why in My anger I swore, ‘They will never enter into My rest.’”