Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
The Psalmist summons all nations to praise God, seeing in this a prophecy of the Church gathered from many peoples. God's kindness to His own is so great it demands abundant rejoicing, and we must cease from the folly of fashioning many gods and robbing Him of the honor His name alone deserves.
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Commenting on Psalm 100:1-5
Serve the Lord with gladness. "Glad homage pay with awful mirth." He is our Lord, and therefore he is to be served; he is our gracious Lord, and therefore to be served with joy. The invitation to worship here given is not a melancholy one, as though adoration were a funeral solemnity, but a cheery gladsome exhortation, as though we were bidden to a marriage feast.
All the earth is summoned to make a joyful noise unto the Lord. We must serve Him not only in obedience but in public worship, entering His gates and courts with gratitude for our place there, the people's privilege, though the holy place itself was kept for the priests alone.
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Commenting on Psalm 100:1-5