Adoration isn’t a holiday mood; it’s a habit that keeps the heart soft. We start with the familiar chorus “O come, let us adore Him” and trace its roots to Psalm 95, where the call to sing, shout, bow, and kneel offers a whole-life pattern of worship. Rather than treating “joyful noise” as a wink at tone-deaf singing, we dig into its ancient sense: a victory shout for the King who saves. That lens recasts praise as a response to God’s decisive work in Christ—the Rock of our salvation—so gratitude rises from more than circumstance; it rises from rescue.
From there, we move into the reasons that anchor worship. The Lord is not one god among many; He is the only true God, Creator and King, who holds mountains and seas—and us—in His hands. Then the psalm gets personal: He is our God, and we are the sheep of His pasture. That one small word our turns theology into relationship. Reverence becomes tangible through posture—worship, bow, kneel—as we enter the presence of the King with humility that trains our desires to yield.
The message also carries a necessary warning. We revisit Meribah and Massah, where Israel, just months after the Red Sea, asked, “Is the Lord among us or not?” We stand with the spies at the edge of promise, where unbelief cost a generation the rest God offered. The point isn’t to shame but to sober: hardened hearts miss blessings obedience would have received. And yet grace threads through the story; God sustained His people even in the wilderness. Our aim is to choose adoration today, guarding against forgetfulness and cynicism by returning, again and again, to praise rooted in salvation and the nearness of our Shepherd.
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