Come, 

let's worship and bow down; 

let's kneel before the Lord our Maker. 

For he is our God, 

and we are the people of his pasture, 

the sheep under his care.

Psalms 95:6-7 CSB

Here in the middle of this song we get this beautiful invitation to gather together.

The psalmist uses the picture of sheep, not scattered, not alone, but together under the care of the great shepherd. 

Safe.

The people of his pasture seems to acknowledge who's world we live in.

And together we bow down. 

Together we worship.

Not a lot of bowing down in my church when we meet together to worship. Not a lot of kneeling down. Quite easy to write that off as a cultural thing, that I'm bowing down in my heart, or raising holy hands inside, and yes it is a heart thing, and worship is not all about a set of rituals, but I wonder if we resist bowing down because our hearts are not quite there?

We are an embodied soul and what we do with our bodies does matter. 

No matter how we express it, let's accept this beautiful call to gather as God's people, to worship our God. 

#psalms

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