Week 24 Psalm 100
I figured I’d make up time reading Psalm 100 today. It’s a short psalm – only five verses. But I didn’t.
Verse two said: serve the Lord with gladness – the psalm also managed to jam in similar ideas like joy, singing, being thankful, being commendatory to the Lord. In less than a hundred words.
I sat looking at the line: serve the Lord with gladness.
I was reading an English bible but the words had a foreign-sounding vibe.
Serve the Lord with gladness.
100:2 is near the bottom of page-851, the right-hand page in my bible. I was just sitting there loitering over glad and glanced across to page 850 and saw a verse I had underlined sometime before: light is sown like seed for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
I got out a word book. Glad is used about 100-times in the bible; about 40 of those glads are in the psalms.
Glad in 100 is connected with serving the Lord. Glad in service.
Glad in 97 is linked to an upright heart. Gladness in uprightness.
Glad is a tricky word.
I’m glad if it’s a sunny day, which is a real but kind of a lighter-weight glad.
The psalm glads are heavier-glads. Higher-on-the-ladder glads.
Glads in the psalms are like slips of litmus that colour up to the pH of my soul.
Note: quotes from Psalm 100:2, 97:11 (NASB version)