Psalm 95 is one of a series of psalms (Psalms 93-100), that the Israelites sang together as they went up to the Temple in Jerusalem to worship. Each psalm in the series is a demonstration and exhortation on how to worship; they are instructions on what worship is and how it is to be done.
“Come, let us worship.” It is a reminder that, while worship may be done individually, worship is maximized when it is expressed corporately. “What are we to express in our worship?” Adoration, praise and thanksgiving to God for God’s self-revelation to us. God is our Creator, our Maker.
God has gathered us from distant and disparate places, into a personal relationship with the Divine. That ought to awaken the love of our heart. We have experienced God’s Shepherd’s care over us as we have come to know Shepherd providential care. That should evoke worship—singing and praying, not artificially or perfunctorily, but genuinely praising God.
The Psalmist urges us to pray from two perspectives—as God’s chief creation and as the object of God’s care and redemption.
We have entered a personal relationship with God and the proper expression of it is one of awe and humility (Proskynéo). Despite the obstacles we have raised against God and the resistance we have shown toward God, God’s love has kept after us, has broken down our reserves, and won us.
We all have fought against God; we have resisted God’s attempt to win us and to change us, through God’s love for us. Thus, we have nothing to praise in ourselves. We brought nothing to our salvation. We are all like stubborn sheep, who go according to their own ways (Isaiah 53:6). But God has pursued us and brought us back. Thus, in response to our relationship with God as Redeemer and Savior, we kneel before the Lord and thank God for the amazing love that has been bestowed on us.
Worship is that praise and adoration which has God as its Source and its Subject. As the sun is the center of our solar system, so God is to be at the center of our worship.
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