Psalm 100:4-5–"Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise! Give thanks to Him; bless Him with Praise! For the Lord is good; His steadfast love endures forever, and His faithfulness to all generations!"
This is a command, request that we would come before God with a specific posture and attitude. Essentially, it is about thankfulness, as if thankfulness were the very definition of praise, the precise qualification of coming before God with reverence and humility. The reason that thankfulness is of such vital importance for the action of entering the presence of God is that thankfulness, by its very nature, causes us not only to recognize the greatness of God by remembering all the awesome things that He has done, but it also forces us to be humble by that recognition. In a way, this is the very essence of the Christian experience, we would do well to make it central in our lives.
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