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The Psalmist opens Psalm 33 with a challenge to be a worshipper:

Let the godly sing for joy to the LORD; it is fitting for the pure to praise him.  Praise the LORD with melodies on the lyre; make music for him on the ten-stringed harp. Sing a new song of praise to him; play skillfully on the harp, and sing with joy.  For the word of the LORD holds true, and we can trust everything he does.  He loves whatever is just and good; he unfailing love of the LORD fills the earth.

Notice how this challenge mentions singing three times and making music on instruments twice.  There is no doubt that music and song are great facilitators of worship and praise. So go to it! Worship in music and song!.  But don’t you think it sad that much of contemporary Christianity seems to associate music and song as the only way to worship. Surely our God is much more awesome than that!  Check out how many times the Psalmist worshiped simply with words of worship and praise. Don’t let your worship be constrained to music and song as important as that is.

And speaking of awesome note the next few verses in this Psalm. 

The LORD merely spoke, and the heavens were created.  He breathed the word, and all the stars were born. He assigned the sea its boundaries and locked the oceans in vast reservoirs.  Let the whole world fear the LORD and let everyone stand in awe of him.  For when he spoke, the world began!  It appeared at his command.

I once heard a Phd geologist say that either you believe that the matter that makes up our universe is eternal, or that there is a creative force.  The Psalmist’s thinking aligns with the Genesis record. ‘God said’ and it was. Imagine, he breathed the word and all the stars were born!

Surely just meditating on the enormity of that creative power should inspire us to be people of worship!  The Psalmist says the Lord merely spoke…. No additional strenuous action to bring the stars into being…. They were not some sort of eternal matter.  God by his awesome power spoke them into being!

We worship you Lord!

Pastor Dave