“All I know most surely about morality and obligation I owe to football”,
Psalm 95
Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. Psalm 95: 1,2This Psalm begins with a call to worship God. As it develops two aspects of God’s character emerge. We are to worship God because “the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods”. He is the creator and sustainer of the world. The world did not happen by chance. It exists because God made it.
From the general, the Psalmist moves to make it personal. God is not just The creator, he is OUR maker (Verse 6) and it gets better:
for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.(Psalm 95:7)
We are his people we are in relationship with him. As John 15 says he does not call us his servants – but his friends! This is the God who has not only give us our sporting talent. He is the God who is interested in how we use it. He is the God who is with us and lives inside us as we train, compete and interact with team mates, opponents and officials. So a modern Psalmist might say “A big shout out to the Rock of our Salvation”.