Psalm 95, John 1: 39
Read Psalm 95 again. Read it one more time focusing on what it asks of us. “Come!” the psalmist invites, “Come and sing, come and thank, come and worship.” We’ll receive this invitation almost every Friday in Lent and even more often if you are praying the Daily Office. The first seven verses of Psalm 95 make up the invitatory prayer called the Venite, part of the liturgy of Morning Prayer.
Read Psalm 95 again. Read it one more time focusing on what it asks of us. “Come!” the psalmist invites, “Come and sing, come and thank, come and worship.” We’ll receive this invitation almost every Friday in Lent and even more often if you are praying the Daily Office. The first seven verses of Psalm 95 make up the invitatory prayer called the Venite, part of the liturgy of Morning Prayer.
Deuteronomy and Titus give us plenty of rules to attend to with strong reminders of the consequences of disobedience. It’s easy to view Lent through that lens and see it only as a time of self-discipline and denial. But Lent is mostly about accepting the invitation and showing up; exercising the self-discipline we need to come into God’s presence and denying ourselves those things that keep us from doing so.
“Come,” the psalmist will invite us each day in Psalm 95. “Come and see,” Jesus invites us today in John 1:39. Venite!
(Robin Carlo)
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