A Prayer Against Unbelief: Psalm 95-Supplication through the Scriptures
A Prayer Against Unbelief Psalm 95 There can be no rest to an unbelieving heart. Spurgeon Psalm 95 begins with an invitation to worship the Lord and gives us reasons why He is worthy of our worship, thus the tone at the beginning of the psalm is one of joy and confidence. The second part of the psalm, however, gives us warnings to not turn away from this worthy God. This psalm is part of book 4 of the psalms which has a theme of trusting God and living by faith that God reigns, even when all of the evidence of life appears to contradict that truth. In his warning, the psalmist implores the people to not harden their hearts as their fathers did when they came out of Egypt. God had rescued the Israelites from slavery in Egypt by mighty signs and the miraculous parting of the Red Sea. And yet, when they started to experience the difficulties of the wilderness, they quickly turned aside from the Lord and grumbled and complained, testing and trying the Lord, and doubting Him by s...