June 22, 2011 – Psalms 96-99

All 4 of these bring about notions of offering God the worship He deserves. Offering everything to Him humbly. Not only are we to worship, but it describes or uses imagery of clouds and symbols of other nation’s gods bowing before Him. Even inanimate objects bow before Him and offer their worship. There is an overwhelming sense of awh and greatness and I feel it is meant to persuade doubters to worship or to strengthen faith. When you are having doubts, look to nature and the world around you and see how it moves and flows with the hand of God. Even it is under God’s command and offers itself to Him. Even the gods that others worship are under obedience to God and are bent to His demands when called upon. It goes along with the understanding that is throughout the Old Testament regarding this understanding of worshipping things that are made by man or in nature. Everything that we see is under God’s command, so to bow down to something that is inferior to God makes little sense. We are to give God the glory for everything we see.