Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

We don't know who wrote any of the Psalms we read today, but they're all really

descriptive picturesque Psalms, so it makes me wonder if they were written by the same person.

Psalm 95 opens with praise and reminds the listener that God isn't just supreme over

the earthly realm, he's supreme over the spiritual realm as well.

He's worthy of worship and especially the worship of his people.

It's not entirely evident in the English version of verse 6, but in this short verse which

says, oh come let us worship and bow down.

Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker.

He's describing three different postures

for worshiping God.

Bowing and down are two separate acts, and kneeling is another act.

These are humble postures of honor and submission, which is how we should relate to the one who made us.

But then he goes on to describe another aspect of our role. we should relate to the one who made us.

But then he goes on to describe another aspect of our relationship with God.

It's not contradictory to the humble bowing toward our maker.

It's complementary.

He portrays God as our shepherd, the one who is attentive to us and

feeds us and watches over us. He calls us the sheep of his hand. It's a much more

intimate relational picture and both things are true of our relationship with God.

He's our maker and he's our shepherd.

He doesn't just make us and leave us on our own.

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