The Purpose and Power of Worship: A Song of Thanksgiving

Hey there, I’m KJ Scriven, and welcome to Strengthen Your Walk™. We’ve been walking through the concept of worship and worship through songs, and we’ve been walking through the Psalms, and we’re walking through different categories of psalms, different genres, and different emotions, and different feelings.

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And so, in our final session, in my final session with you, I want to walk through Psalm 100, which is a psalm of thanksgiving. And this is how this psalm reads. It says, “Let the whole earth shout triumphantly to the Lord! Serve the Lord with gladness; come before the Lord, come before Him with joyful songs. Acknowledge that the Lord is God. He made us, and we are His. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, and bless His name.” Why? “For the Lord is good, and His faithful love endures forever; His faithfulness through all generations.” This is a psalm that one of the psalmists wrote. And there’s something that I want to focus on in this song.

Why do we praise God? Why do we sing to God? Why do we give God things? And I just want to focus on a couple verses here. I want to focus on verse 3. It says, “Acknowledge that the Lord is God. It is He that has made us, not we ourselves. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.” I love this because it is saying, “Acknowledge that God is the one that made you. You didn’t make yourself.”

You know, I remember when my wife was having our first daughter, Alison. My wife was about eight months pregnant, and my wife remembered feeling- she just felt very achy. And we called the nurse and the doctor and said, “Hey, is there something wrong? We’re feeling kind of achy.” And the nurse told my wife, she said, “Hey, Miss Scriven, no issue. Your bones are actually softening. Your body knows that a baby is about to come. And so, your bones are getting ready in preparation for the baby to come. So that’s why you feel that way.”

And we were blown away because God, in His infinite wisdom, gave instruction to her DNA and her body knows what to do even when she was unaware of it. And we were like, “Whoa, what a mighty God we serve.” We were reminded in that moment that God’s wisdom is infinite. And so, we should worship Him because He is all knowing. He is all good.

In fact, you know, many of us, we ate breakfast or lunch. I don’t know what time of the day you’re listening to this. And you know your food is digesting. You don’t know how though. You just know it’s happening. This is an indicator that someone beyond you made you. And since God made you, you don’t get to determine what you do with your life, the one who created you does. And that lets you know, man, whoever made me is infinitely powerful, infinitely wise, infinitely beautiful.

And for this reason, we are reminded, it is He that has made us not we ourselves. And so, we are not the God of our own lives. He is the Lord of our lives. And for that reason alone, He deserves our worship. But not only is God all powerful, not only is He all wisdom. It says here in verse 5 that His faithful love, His covenant love, endures forever. He is worthy of our worship.

So, I encourage you guys, keep singing, keep worshiping the Lord, and read these psalms because they will be a guide for you through your journey in life. It’s been a pleasure. And thank you so much for joining us for Strengthen Your Walk™.

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