Sun 9:30a Class; 10:30a Worship; 11:35a Communion
Bible Bites
This Is Urgent!
“Oh 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. Today, if you hear his voice, do no harden your hearts…” (Psalm 95:5-8)
Once reminded, most of us are aware of the differences between the things which are urgent and those which are important. Life makes it easy to be consumed by urgent matters and to neglect important ones. Therefore, it becomes necessary to assign urgency to some aspects of our lives. Worship is one of those areas.
Most, if not all, believers would attest to the importance of worship. Whether corporate or private, we believe that it is important to approach God with our adoration. But many of us would not assign worship to the “urgent” category of our lives. If something more urgent comes up, we tend to believe worshiping God can wait.
But the Psalm quoted above is not so neutral toward our worship of God. The imperative, “come,” offers a call to action based firmly in the present tense. The invitation to “worship and bow down” is not offered for the coming Sabbath, the next month’s feast, or when everything else is done. The summons to “kneel before the Lord, our Maker” is offered as a current plea—something which should happen right away. The writer tells us in verse 8 that this must be done today.
There is a saying: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.” The fact is that worshiping God is a matter of some urgency. It is something which we always have the opportunity to do, but it is not something that should go undone by the soul that truly knows God and seeks his glory. May we all share the Psalmist’s urgent focus on “today.”
