Psalm 134 "All you Servants of the Lord"

Psalm for Today = 134:1-3

¹Come, 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!

“Best of…” Comments from years past:

Worship is the appropriate attitude and posture for those who are in God's presence. In the psalmist's day it involved actually going to the temple...and you had to be a priest to be in the holy place. Today, by faith in Christ we are all priests and should live lives of worship!

No matter when we are on duty, even when no one else is around, we can still bless the Lord! 

Comments:

Who would have stood by night in the temple? Those assigned as watchmen to guard the gates and the priests who were tasked with keeping the lamps burning. What is our appointed task today? What is our assignment this evening, tomorrow, and this week?

Whatever it is, we can choose to bless the Lord by doing what he has assigned to us with a willing and dedicated heart. For as the psalmist calls to all “servants of the Lord” so too the New Testament also admonishes us in serving the Lord! 

“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.” (Colossians 3:23-24 ESV)

May our work be diligent, though no one may be watching; working enthusiastically as an outflow of our dedication and devotion to Christ. No matter what we do, let us lift up our hands and bless the Lord with it! Centuries ago in England, the church bells would be rung each hour, not to call the people to church, but to remind the people to consciously invite God into the midst of what they were doing and to dedicate what they were doing (plowing, cooking, herding, weeding, spinning, sewing, studying, etc.) to the service of Christ.

Who do we worship with our work?