Pastor YC "Psalm 100: Created by God"

PS 100:3 Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

The Amplified Bible reads: "It is he who made us, not we ourselves!"

A self-made man. We often use this to describe a person who built his life from scratch, to arrive at a position of status without depending upon others. In the eyes of most people, definitely a compliment.

However Ps 100 is a reminder that our successes will not happen if God wasn't in it in the 1st place.

When the accolades and high-fives come, it is so easy to just get carried away by self-admiration. "after all, what I did was not trivial..."

Yet the Psalmist reminds us instead to:

PS 100:2 Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.

The fact of the matter is that God has always been good to us, even if we think that we were "self-made".

PS 100:5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Therefore we have every reason, everyday, to "enter his courts with thanksgiving".


Lord, teach me to worship you with reverence everytime I come into your house.