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December 8: Integrity as praise to God.
Psalms 100:1-5:
Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness; come before His presence with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations.

Psalms 101:1-8:
I will sing of mercy and justice; to You, O Lord, I will sing praises. I will behave wisely in a perfect way. Oh, when will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me. A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will not know wickedness. Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy; the one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, him I will not endure. My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in a perfect way, he shall serve me. He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house; he who tells lies shall not continue in my presence. Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.

Psalm 102:13-18:
You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favor her, yes, the set time, has come. For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, and show favor to her dust. So the nations shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. For the Lord shall build up Zion; He shall appear in His glory. He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, and shall not despise their prayer. This will be written for the generation to come, that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.


These are 3 short psalms. I read the first two completely and the last one should be read later so you don't miss the full context.
On a curious note, Psalm 100 is the shortest chapter in the Bible. It is also one of the most beautiful because it is an invitation to worship God and recognize His sovereignty over all things, especially over our lives. This is a psalm where dependence on the Lord is recognized as a sheep depends on its shepherd. And it also invites us to enter the presence of God with the correct attitude, which is an attitude of gratitude. I encourage you to learn this psalm.

The next psalm, 101, is a covenant psalm. The psalmist made a commitment before God to live a life of integrity because he knew that only people who walk in integrity will be blessed by God and will be worthy to serve before His presence in ministry.
That is why the psalmist took care of what he spoke, what he thought, what he felt, and even what he saw; because the bad things are those that contaminate man and he wanted to be clean before God. That is why in these two verses in the God's Word Translation version we read the word integrity: “My eyes will be watching the faithful people in the land so that they may live with me. The person who lives with integrity will serve me.” And "I will live in my own home with integrity. I will not put anything wicked in front of my eyes. I hate what unfaithful people do. I want no part of it."
I hope you can also memorize these verses and that it is also the covenant that you make with the Lord for this new year that is coming: to live in integrity.

And finally, Psalm 102 is a psalm of the cry of someone for God to intercede and save his life, but not only his but that of everyone in general, to the life of the city of Zion, which represents all the people of Israel and Judah.
The psalmist was confident that the Lord would free them and give them a new opportunity to reestablish the city of God. To the point...