“A MIGHTY HYMN OF PRAISE” PSALM 100:1-5

What a majestic psalm we have for our study.  It is a very familiar and beloved psalm that many believers know by heart.  This psalm has blessed many hearts that are beset by many depressing issues of our time.  In the midst of life’s variegated issues, we need to praise the name of our majestic God because He is deserving of all of our praise and adoration.  Yes, in the midst of life’s challenges, I have endeavored to be thankful and praise His name, and I will join the psalmist in Psalm 105:1-3, as he says: “O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon His name: make known His deeds among the people.  Sing unto Him, sing psalms unto Him: talk ye of all His wondrous works.  Glory ye in His holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.

The psalmist begins this awesome psalm by calling forth a universal praise of the Lord with unusual gladness and exuberance by declaring  “Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands” (v. 1).    We have so much to praise the Lord for, and we ought to praise Him in excited worship.  Thanksgiving should erupt from our lips and hearts for all of the great benefits the Lord has afforded us with.  Is the Lord good?  Then, you should praise Him in excited worship – “Serve the LORD with gladness: come before His presence with singing” (v. 2).  He has certainly been good to me and I am going to extol our great God.  Yes, I am going to praise Him, for Psalm 113:2-3 states:  “Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’s name is to be praised.”

The Lord should be praised because of His creatorship and He is our redeemer.  The psalmist confirms His creatorship in verse 3 by stating, “Know ye that the LORD He is God: it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.”   Not only should the Lord be praised because He is our creator and redeemer, but He should be praised because He is definitely good.

If the Lord grants, we should enter each day by coming into His presence with exuberant praise because He certainly has benefited us with His goodness!  As the psalmist concludes this hymn of praise he exhorts us to “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless His name. For the LORD is good; His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endureth to all generations (vv. 4-5).

May God Bless!