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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Psalms 100:1-5; ; Psalms 101:1-8
Psalms 100:1-5 is a psalm of thanksgiving inviting "the whole earth" to praise the LORD and to serve Him joyfully.
We also have these privileges and with even greater reason, we who know God as our good Father and the Lord Jesus as our caring Shepherd (cf. end of v. 3). Is it a joy for us to serve the Lord? Or, on the contrary, do we behave as if He were a hard master with a heavy yoke? (Matthew 25:24 . . .). Dear friends, may we know now the joy which always goes hand in hand with obedient service (John 15:10-11) so that we might also understand later that tender phrase: "Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord" (Matthew 25:21; Matthew 25:23).
A new series begins with Psalms 101:1-8. This psalm is in a way the text of the public declaration of the King inaugurating His reign. He sets out the foundations on which the government of the country is to be based: wisdom, integrity, righteousness, separation from evil. What a contrast between these simple and sound principles and the cluttered and complicated codes of human justice! All the subjects in the kingdom will have been warned: perversity, slander, pride, fraud and lies will not be tolerated. Having been called to reign with the Lord, it is up to us to show forth the principles of His Kingdom in our walk now.
