LentDay 7
Listening today
Week 1 · Wednesday · Psalm 95: Come, Let Us Worship; Today, Listen
For today
The psalm moves from joyful worship to a sober memory of hearts hardened in the wilderness. Today is the word to hold on to: not someday, but now, you can listen.
Begin with these verses
verse 6O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. verse 7For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,
verse 8do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness, verse 9where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
In Christ
How this psalm points to Jesus
The New Testament quotes this psalm · verse 7
Hebrews takes this psalm up as a word for the Church, urging us to encourage one another every day, to hold firmly to Christ, and to enter the rest that remains for God's people.
verse 7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, verse 8do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness,
verse 13But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. verse 14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
verse 9There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. verse 10For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.
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