Psalms 100:2

2 Serve Jehovah with joy: come before his presence with exultation.

Psalms 100:2 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 100:2

Serve the Lord with gladness
Not with a slavish fear, under a spirit of bondage, as the Jews under the legal dispensation; not in the oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the Spirit: with spiritual joy and freedom of soul, as under the spirit of adoption; readily, willingly, cheerfully; without sinister and selfish ends and views; as their Lord and Master; taking delight in his person, and pleasure in his service; rejoicing in him, without having any confidence in the flesh:

come before his presence with singing;
to the throne of his grace with thankfulness for mercies received, as well as to implore others; and into his house, and at his ordinances, beginning public worship with singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; see ( Psalms 95:2 ) .

Psalms 100:2 In-Context

1 {A Psalm of thanksgiving.} Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth!

2 Serve Jehovah with joy: come before his presence with exultation.

3 Know that Jehovah is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving [and] into his courts with praise; give thanks unto him, bless his name:

5 For Jehovah is good; his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever; and his faithfulness from generation to generation.