Worship Renewed (With Gratitude)

Life felt a bit heavy when I first got up this morning...

Doom and gloom headlines can steal the bloom of joy

just like that...

Better to lift our cup up the the One who overflows skylines

and timelines with everlasting wonder and/of love...

'Ah, see the world dew-pendant pearled, where daybreak steals the show'...

It is not hard on a morning like this

to 'Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; '

and to 'give thanks to him and praise his name.'

Psalm 100:4

Do not give up; but lift life’s cup of learning to thy lips

Trust in the Hand that pours time’s sand through scars to fingertips

Who breathes upon the dark of dawn until it disappears

Who stokes the reed of soul and seed with Mercy’s smiles and tears

Count not for naught the noble thought that sparks the kindly deed

Revere the care that stirs the prayer that groans from frames of need

And lean on he who drapes the lea with silver scarves of mist

Who stuns our gaze with wonder’s ways though hurts and griefs persist

Aha, the bell twixt heav’n and hell tolls with mercy renewed

And fills the earth with living’s Worth that births meek gratitude

And heaps Hope’s trays that leap with praise that snuffs the foolish plea

Till all we truly covet is more love, My God for thee

Ah, see the world dew-pendant pearled, where daybreak steals the show

And bends the commonplace with grace as skylines overflow

From fathoms of goodness and love dawn throbs with ‘I AM He

Who fills thy cup that you lift up with My sufficiency

© Janet Martin

I was going to share only verse nine from Psalms 96

until I read the whole chapter and wanted you to have the pleasure too!!

Psalm 96

Sing to the LORD a new song;

sing to the LORD, all the earth.

2Sing to the LORD, bless His name;

proclaim His salvation day after day.

3Declare His glory among the nations,

His wonderful deeds among all peoples.

4For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised;

He is to be feared above all gods.

5For all the gods of the nations are idols,

but it is the LORD who made the heavens.

6Splendor and majesty are before Him;

strength and beauty fill His sanctuary.

7Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the nations,

ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

8Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name;

bring an offering and enter His courts.

9Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness;

tremble before Him, all the earth.

10Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!”

The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved;

He will judge the peoples with equity.

11Let the heavens be glad

and the earth rejoice;

let the sea resound,

and all that fills it.

12Let the fields exult,

and all that is in them.

Then all the trees of the forest

will sing for joy 13before the LORD,

for He is coming—

He is coming to judge the earth.

He will judge the world in righteousness

and the peoples in His faithfulness.

Let the fields exult...