Day 33 - Come, The Celebration of Worship

We’ve arrived…the last of the Psalms of Ascents celebrates that arrival and it’s time to celebrate.

Psalm 134:1-3

¹ Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD!
² Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the LORD!
³ May the LORD bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth!

The Pilgrim’s journey began with reflection, and repentance. He knew that he needed to make this journey. Life isn’t easy, it’s downright difficult. The world is beautiful, but it is not our friend. All around us, and within us, is the selfish tendencies that infiltrate all that we seem to be around and within.

What do we do?

How can we escape the selfishness and rise to a different place?

It’s in celebration of worship.

There’s something humbling about worship. We grow small, humbled, and realize that we need something much more than we can gain struggling through life by ourself. The way of the pilgrim is of one who loves God and wants him more than life itself, and is willing to be humbled and lift up the hands in the holy place of worship.

To proclaim that God is master of the universe, and master of the soul.

He “blesses” the Lord. How can we do that? Isn’t he blessed already? The word describes the person who is “in-tune” and “one” with God.

In Lent, we recognize what Paul later recounts in Philippians 2:5-8

⁵ Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
⁶ who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
⁷ but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
⁸ And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Think about it…God kneels with us…God lifts his hands with us… We never worship alone. We celebrate in worship with the God of the Universe, the God of Heaven, the God who sent his one and only Son into the world that he might save the world from its Sin.

God gets down on our level and becomes a part of our lives.

The Psalmist hits the nail on the head:

“Come, bless the Lord…May the Lord bless you.”

Peace

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