100 Days in the Psalms

Psalm 100

The title under the chapter is “A Psalm for Giving Thanks.” This is exactly what this psalm was meant to do, make sure we are giving thanks properly to God.

Here it is: “Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with Gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good, his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.”

This psalm is simple and to the point, it is to God. We are called to make a joyfull noise to the Lord and that is something to think about. We may make noises to God but are they joyful. Think about it! Is our noise to God one of complaints? Worries? Stress? We can offer these up to God but do you have joy in God and in his presence? This should be what consumes us in our time with God.

Not only are we to sing a joyful noise to the Lord, we also see that it is the earth doing it. This should challenge us to see if we are being the examples of this. How real is the sense that we come before God? How joyful is our singing? As we see in this Psalm that we are sheep of his pasture, Jesus is the shepherd over us who laid down his life for us. We have real joy in our salvation which is through Jesus Christ. Do you have a real sense of that? Take this day and reevaluate your noise to God.