{"id":22668,"date":"2016-11-14T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=22668"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T20:22:07","slug":"psalm-100-gracious-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/john\/2016\/11\/14\/psalm-100-gracious-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 100: Gracious Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What do the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=psalm+115:4-8&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bible<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/157984-the-gods-we-worship-write-their-names-on-our-faces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shepherd.to\/Excerpts\/books\/faith\/Tozer\/tozer-quotes.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A. W. Tozer<\/a><sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-22668-1' id='fnref-22668-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(22668)'>1<\/a><\/sup> have in common? They all say&nbsp;that we become what we worship, for good or bad. We must therefore be careful about how&nbsp;we think of God, because our primary image of him will affect our attitudes, decisions, and behaviours. Ultimately, the way we see God will determine the way we lead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If we see God as a harsh taskmaster, then we will likely be a harsh taskmaster.<\/li><li>If we see God as a cosmic police officer watching to catch us doing wrong, then we will tend to be a police officer.<\/li><li>If we believe in a compassionate God, then we can be expected to&nbsp;be compassionate.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Psalm 100:5<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Psalm 100:5<\/strong> is&nbsp;a beautiful description&nbsp;of God, which corrects faulty conceptions of <strong>who God is<\/strong>. It should form&nbsp;our primary image of the Lord God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;<br>his faithfulness continues through all generations.<br>Psalm 100:5 (NIV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What a great summary of God&#8217;s relationship with you and me! But as much as it speaks to God&#8217;s relationship with us, it also speaks to our relationship with our employees. Let&#8217;s unpack the verse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Psalm 100 Gracious leadership\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aL6YBvwdxMw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Covenant<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The text uses God&#8217;s covenantal name <em>Yahweh <\/em>(translated as <em>Lord<\/em>), so right away we are reminded of God&#8217;s covenant with his people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s crucial to understand that this covenant wasn&#8217;t <em>negotiated<\/em> by God with humanity; it was <em>unilaterally crafted<\/em> by God at his own initiative and on his own terms. And because God sent his Son to fulfill humanity&#8217;s&nbsp;obligations under the covenant, we don&#8217;t even have to do anything to get the benefits of the covenant, other than accept what Jesus did for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But far more important to us than the terms of the covenant is the love which motivated God to create a covenant in the first place. God&#8217;s love for humanity will last forever, and God will faithfully uphold his part of the covenant forever. What an amazing commitment God made to us for our benefit! But then it gets even better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">God&#8217;s&nbsp;Graciousness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The psalm&nbsp;describes God as <em>good<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like the way Thomas Cranmer translated the Hebrew word for <em>good<\/em> in the&nbsp;<em>Book of Common Prayer.<\/em> He wrote &#8220;The Lord is <strong><em>gracious<\/em><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I heard someone say recently, &#8220;God&#8217;s grace would be easier for us all to receive if we believed we had earned it, but then it wouldn&#8217;t be grace!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=rom+5:6&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">God did not wait until we were worthy to receive his gift<\/a>, but he gave it to us specifically because we did <em>not<\/em> deserve it and could do <em>nothing<\/em> to be deserving of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Psalm-100-Gracious-Leadership.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Psalm-100-Gracious-Leadership-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Psalm-100-Gracious-Leadership.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Psalm-100-Gracious-Leadership.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Psalm-100-Gracious-Leadership.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Download personal reflection guide<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The God We Worship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalm 100, and many other verses throughout Scripture, tell us that the God we worship is the God who generously and sacrificially loves those who do not deserve to be loved at all. 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