Knowing the Lord is God
Tuesday’s Verse:
From Psalm 100:3 ESV
“Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”
This verse is a call to know. Not to speculate or sense or infer, but to know assuredly: the Lord is God. This is true whether we feel faithful or faint. God is God, because He says He is, not because we happen to believe well enough.
The psalm shifts our gaze away from ourselves. “It is He who made us.” We did not make our own lives, or our value, or our position before God. All is first from Him. That means our identity is not something we have to create or prove or hold on to. We belong to the One who made us.
Then comes gospel-shaped comfort: “We are His people.” Not because we always hear well, but because He calls us His. We stray like sheep, doubt like sheep, disobey like sheep. But we are still His. The Shepherd does not let the sheep go when it wanders. He goes after it.
Psalm 100: 3 invites us to rest, in the place where faith always rests in who God is and whose we are. In that knowing there is peace.
✝️ A Prayer for Today:
Lord God, You are our Creator and our Shepherd. When we forget who we are or try to make ourselves our own, remind us that we are Yours. Keep us in Your keeping by Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Apostles’ Creed:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Luther’s Morning Prayer:
I thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have kept me this night from all harm and danger; and I pray that You would keep me this day also from sin and every evil, that all my doings and life may please You. For into Your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me, that the evil foe may have no power over me. Amen.
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