Preparing for corporate worship January 29

It was an important day in the life of God’s people under the Old Covenant, as recorded in Neh. 9. They gathered in Jerusalem and, at length, listened to the reading of God’s Word. They confessed their sins. They worshiped God. The Levites began a lengthy description of God and His merciful faithfulness to his people with these words in Neh. 9:5b-6: “Arise, bless the Lord your God forever and ever! O may Your glorious name be blessed and exalted above all blessing and praise! You alone are the Lord. You have made the heavens, the heaven of heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all of them and the heavenly host bows down before You.” As God’s people under the New Covenant, we will gather this Sunday to worship this same awesome God. He alone is the Lord, and may we exalt His glorious name with all that is within us. Will you prepare yourself – and help prepare those you have spiritual responsibility for – to worship God in spirit and in truth?