Psalm 100

Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise—

GIVE THANKS to Him and PRAISE His name.

For the LORD is good and His love endures forever. 

How important it is to know the way into God’s presence.  Do we really know how to come into His presence and enter His courts?  With clean hands and a pure heart—we enter His gates with thanksgiving.   

We may think in our present circumstance there may be nothing to thank or praise God for… but that is a lie from the devil himself.  First, the Lord is good.  Second, His love endures forever. Third, His faithfulness will continue through all generations.  If we truly believe all three, we have no other reason but to praise God for who He really is.  We believe in God’s unchanging goodness.   

 

 

  

     

        Psalm 100

                     1     Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth—

  2     Serve the Lord with gladness… come before Him with joyful singing.

  3     Know that the Lord, He is God;

It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves—

We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

   4     Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise.

Give thanks to Him, bless His Holy name.

   5     For the Lord is good—

His lovingkindness is everlasting and His faithfulness will endure to all generations.  

Because the Lord is good, we who belong to Him should be people of joy, submission, and praise.

Psalm 100 is the only psalm with the title, “A Psalm of Thanksgiving.”  The Hebrew words describing “good” are to mean “merciful,” “kindness,” “faithfulness”…   

“The Lord is good.” It’s easy to say it but do you really believe it?  We all go through great difficulties and trials.  We can believe that God is using these trials to work together for our good, to be conformed into the image of Jesus Christ (Romans 8:28-29).  Satan knows that if he can get you to doubt God’s goodness, you won’t trust Him. If you don’t trust Him, you won’t obey Him.

 

As Psalm 119:75-76 affirms, “I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me. O may Your lovingkindness comfort me, according to Your word to Your servant.”

 

So we must affirm at all times in all situations, “Lord, You are good to me! Your lovingkindness and Your faithfulness are always with me. You will never leave me or forsake me (Hebrews 13:5).”

 

“Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful singing.” Is that your image of the Christian life? There’s no place for complaining here.  Joy in the Lord should be an expression of our love for Him.  

He is our Redeemer!