Psalms 100

Shout for joy to the LORD, all you lands! Shared thanksgiving: all-earth joyful noise. Wesley's notes on this psalm are sparse; the plain call stands.

Thanksgiving is loud and wide. All the earth is invited—do not shrink the choir to a corner.

Calvin: joyful noise of all the earth to Jehovah—thanksgiving service; in prophetic spirit the Church gathered from the nations is in view.

Joyful noise; all the earth. Both camps stand together in catholic thanksgiving, not inventing a fork here.

Serve with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. The psalm calls for glad service and a singing approach to God.

Service without gladness misunderstands the Master. Singing is how presence is entered here.

Calvin: serve Jehovah with gladness; come before him with joy—kindness supplies ground for rejoicing in service.

Glad service; presence with singing. Duty and delight are not rivals in this verse.

Know that the Lord, he is God! He made us, and we are his; his people, sheep of his pasture. Knowing deity; Maker; belonging as flock.

Know—repent of many gods and self-making myths. Sheep language is identity before it is comfort.

Calvin: know Jehovah himself is God; he made us, not we ourselves; his people and sheep of his pasture—rebuke of presumption and idol-fashioning; pure knowledge keeps his glory unimpaired; meditate his making and flock-care.

He is God; he made us; we are his people and sheep. Creator-claim and covenant flock in one breath.

Enter gates with thanksgiving, courts with praise; give thanks; bless his name. Gated entry; thanks; blessing the name.

Thanksgiving is the password. Blessing the name fills courts louder than complaints.

Calvin: enter gates with praise, courts with rejoicing; give glory and bless his name—nearly the opening call restated for public worship.

Gates; courts; thanks; bless his name. Structured worship carries the joyful noise inside.

For the Lord is good; steadfast love forever; faithfulness to all generations. Shared close: goodness; everlasting hesed; enduring truth/faithfulness.

The call to praise rests on reasons. Forever love and generation-spanning faithfulness make thanksgiving rational.

Calvin: Jehovah is good; mercy forever; truth from generation to generation—grounds of praise that do not expire with one age.

Both camps end in undivided thanksgiving to the same good Lord.