Please read Psalm 96 (13 verses)

We are constrained to sing the new song, the song of the salvation of God, which He has brought to realty through the Lord Jesus Christ. The new song reverberates through the whole created world, day after glorious day. The marvellous works of the Lord are celebrated before the peoples of the world. The Lord is calling in the kingdom of His people and this is the reason the world continues. He is calling people to repentance and faith in Christ, to have hearts made right with himself and souls that are alive to the Holy Spirit.

The Lord alone is great for He is above all the other gods that we construct, which are not gods, but useless idols that we look to for strength and help. There is only help in the Lord, who has made everything and who radiates strength, majesty and glory. We find these manifest in His holy sanctuary and respond in worship. We experience it through His salvation on a daily basis.

We worship this Lord in the splendour of His holiness and come into His presence with our sacrifices of praise. All the families of the earth will be blessed as they come to Him and ascribe to Him the glory due to His name. We know in our inner hearts that the Lord is real and we must tremble before Him for His works sake. He upholds the whole earth and judges the people of earth fairly as the merciful judge.

Let the whole earth rejoice before His throne. May heaven and earth resound with His praises, the seas and the fields, alike proclaiming His everlasting power. The trees of the forest sing for joy at the justice of the Lord as He makes sentence on the peoples of the earth, judging with righteousness and faithfulness, bringing many saints to glory and the knowledge of Him.