Today's Featured Psalm
Psalm 95

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1 Oh come, let us sing to the LORD;
   let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;
   let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
3 For the LORD is a great God,
   and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth;
   the heights of the mountains are his also.
5 The sea is his, for he made it,
   and his hands formed the dry land.

6 Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
   let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
7 For he is our God,
   and we are the people of his pasture,
   and the sheep of his hand.
Today, if you hear his voice,
   8 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
   as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 when your fathers put me to the test
   and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
10 For forty years I loathed that generation
   and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,
   and they have not known my ways.”
11 Therefore I swore in my wrath,
   “They shall not enter my rest.”


Scripture taken from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Psalm Devotional
The Rock

Mention “the Rock” in some younger circles and the name of Dwayne Johnson, former pro-wrestler and star of action movies, may come up. Older folks may think of the Prudential Insurance Co., which uses the Rock of Gibraltar as its logo.

In Scripture, “the Rock” is invariably the Rock of our salvation (see Ps. 18:2, 46; 62:2-7; 89:26; Is. 17:10). God is “the Rock that is higher than I” (Ps. 61:2). Speaking of Israel en route to the Promised Land, Paul notes that “they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ” (1 Cor. 10:4).

Psalm 95 is about the foundations of a right relationship with the Lord, who is defined from the outset as “the Rock of our salvation” (v. 1). This presents us with a double call to joyful praise and steadfast discipleship.

Listen to this Psalm

Communion album art Come to the Lord and Sing for Joy (Psalm 95A)
The Book of Psalms for Worship | Communion
Communion album art O Come and Let Us Worship Him (Psalm 95B)
The Book of Psalms for Worship | Communion
Communion album art Today If You Will Hear His Voice (Psalm 95C)
The Book of Psalms for Worship | Communion
Abundance album art O Come to the Lord (Psalm 95D)
The Book of Psalms for Worship | Abundance