This psalm undergoes a pretty wild mood change from beginning to end. It begins with a pretty standard praise to God, and it ends with a haunting warning. Perhaps a warning we need to hear, though, because the same warning echoes through the Old Testament right up into the New Testament (in the book of Hebrews). I wonder if I take worship too lightly as I read this warning.
After all, worship is not something small. The ancient people considered it a wonder that God (or the gods, depending on the culture) would even interact with them at all. Perhaps in our pride, we have considered ourselves so important that God should show up in our worship, and to not show up would be some breach of trust.
Indeed, it is wonderful that God would reveal God's own character and plan to human beings. The fact that God walked in the Garden of Eden with the first humans is pretty incredible. God's plan includes us, and that is incredible. God chooses, for some reason we can only call love, to speak to creation. Let our hearts not be hardened to the voice of God.
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