Good Morning Everyone,
Our theme for this month: “Celebration”
Our Bible verse for today: “Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.” Psalm 95:6 (HCSB)
Our thought for today: “Reverent worship is a form of celebration:
Psalm 95:6 is actually part of the lyrics from one of my favorite contemporary worship songs “Come let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our God our Maker …” In this verse the psalmist does a good job of combining the ideas of worship as both celebration and reverence. This balance helps us to guard against becoming too restrained and subdued, or too superficial and cavalier.
As I write this we are deep into the Christmas season. Tomorrow night at Oak Hill Baptist we will have a Christmas Eve candlelight service. It will be a time of both celebration and reverence. We will recall that on the night Jesus was born a multitude of angels sang glorious hallelujahs – it was a great celebration, while the shepherds came to bow before the newborn King and to worship Him. Then there was more rejoicing and praising as the shepherds went on their way to spread the good news about all they had seen and heard.
I realize that many of you reading this are scattered around the country, but many others are right here in Crossville, TN. For those of you who are close, I invite you to join us for the Christmas Eve candlelight service at Oak Hill Baptist at 5:30 PM. For those of you who aren’t close enough to join us, I encourage you to find a similar service in your own town.
Celebration can include both reverent worship and joyful praising. Come, let us worship and bow down …
God Bless,
Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 