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This week’s lesson is about God’s call of people to special service.  The daily readings are intended to help us focus through the week from the call to worship God to which all believers should respond to the call to full-time ministry in the faith.  Today’s scripture reading tells us that we should worship God with gladness – and it tells us why – because we are his creation, and his steadfast love endures forever:

1 Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.
2 Worship the Lord with gladness; come into his presence with singing.
3 Know that the Lord is God. It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, bless his name.
5 For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.  Psalms 100:1-5 (NRSV)

“Come into his presence with singing.”  Hmm, maybe that’s why we sing during the processional.

According to the New Interpreter’s Study Bible and the Jewish Study Bible, the phrase in verse three can be rendered as either “and not we ourselves” or as “and we are his“, with the second reading being preferred.  But stop and think about that first reading as well.  When I typed the title of this post (using the title in the Daily Bible Study in our Adult Bible Studies book), I thought to myself – “you want to be sure to use the apostrophe!”  It is wonderful that we are God’s, but it’s also important to remember that we are not gods.