Surrender in Worship!

Psalm 95

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, July 17.

Have you ever been moved by the reverence of God to kneel or lay prostrate on the ground before Him in worship? It’s a powerful experience to worship in this physical posture, but it must be a movement of the Spirit upon you to be sincere worship. While it shouldn’t be institutionalized, we are invited to surrender in worship in Psalm 95:6-7a, “Come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.” True worship moves a church from being people-centered to God-centered, as described in The Preacher’s Commentary:

Here then [in Psalm 95:6] a crucial point is made. Our worship is not centered in what we get out of church (edification or inspiration). Our worship is centered in what we give to God. Worship is the turning of our lives over to Him, nothing less. A service of worship, therefore, is a service of surrender. This reality, if expressed, will deliver us from much of the self-centered so-called worship of the modern church.^[1]

Each of the three Hebrew verbs found in Psalm 95:6 is concerned with getting low before God, putting oneself in a position of surrender before God, who is worthy of such submission. The Hebrew word translated worship means to prostrate oneself, as seen of Abraham in Genesis 18:2, when he “bowed himself to the earth.” The psalmist describes the people of God bowing the knee and paying homage to their King as a sign and wonder of their allegiance to the Good Shepherd of their souls.

Seize the moment and pray Psalm 95, meditating upon the worthiness of God for your sincere worship. Put yourself in a position of surrender today knowing that one day “every knee will bow” (Philippians 2:9-11).

God bless you!

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FOOTNOTE:

[1] Donald Williams and Lloyd J. Ogilvie, Psalms 73–150, vol. 14, The Preacher’s Commentary Series (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Inc, 1989), 183.