The Morning Devotional: Psalm 95
Season 11 | Edition 63
August 3, 2026
SUMMARY: The sermon examines Psalm 95 to contrast the proper response of joyful worship with the dangerous posture of a hardened heart. It highlights God's sovereignty as Creator and King, urging believers to approach Him with reverence rather than treating Him as a peer. Drawing on the historical failures at Meribah and Massah, the text warns against grumbling and testing God despite His proven faithfulness. The central message calls for immediate obedience and thanksgiving when hearing God's voice, rejecting the discontent that led Israel astray. Ultimately, the preacher emphasizes that true worship involves both praise and submission to God's authority.
Oh come, let us sing to the Lord;
let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
3 For the Lord is a great God,
and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth;
the heights of the mountains are his also.
5 The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.
6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
7 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,
8 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 when your fathers put me to the test
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
10 For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,
and they have not known my ways.”
11 Therefore I swore in my wrath,
“They shall not enter my rest.”
(PSalm 95:1-11, ESV)