Psalm 95
I was at the Home Office this weekend, and I really love these times when I’m all by myself in our apartment. I spread out all my work, and I work all day. Some days I never really get out of my sweats, but I get a lot of work done. This weekend was like that, and in the midst of my work, I took some time to read through Psalm 95.
I love how that Psalm starts. It’s an invitation: “Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.” I love that first word, “come.” It’s an invitation and a reminder that we have the ability to connect with our Maker, connect with our God and spend time with Him.
Then the Psalm goes on. Familiar verses are spoken, verses 6 and 7, “Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker, for He is our God and we are the people of His pasture, the flock under His care.”
I was thinking about our mission and about the changes that are coming up next week, with the regional directors becoming field directors. I began to think about the changes we’ve made because of our financial situation. And then I began to rest in the fact that we are His people. We are in His pasture, and we are under His care.
I felt myself being overwhelmed with the notion that I am a child of God and that the Creator of the world somehow, some way invested His life in me. He believes in me, and he keeps me in His pasture. He has a fence around His people that keeps certain things out of our lives because of our choices to be obedient, and He also defines our lives by putting us in a pasture. His has a fence; He has boundaries. When we live in that pasture and rest in that pasture, we find great joy, and that’s why the psalm starts out, “Sing with joy to the Lord.”
We are under His care. He will take care of us, and He fed my soul this weekend. Sitting in our little apartment with a room full of paper spread all over, trying to get work done, trying to make it happen, the words of Psalm 95 leapt off the page. We are in His care, and He will take care of us. I hope that our mission – our missionaries, our board, and our staff – realizes how incredible it is that we will be taken care of by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
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