Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 12.28
when i think and ponder on the Holiness of God and His amazing and astonishing works. i am in awe. how can we not fear Him and tremble at His Word?
just by stopping for a time and reading His Word. my heart is overwhelmed and overjoyed by the Words jumping off the page and coming to life. it is the Living Word of God. my God is alive and hears with me. I am in Him and He is in me. amazing in itself.
but thinking how He has chosen me. how i am adopted as His Child and secure forever in Him… amazing.
Think of it. my Heavenly Father is the God that created this earth. the One who holds it now. the One ‘who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of the waves, the tumult of the peoples, so that that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs. You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.’ (Psalm 65.7-8)
so won’t you join with me,
‘come and see what God has done;
he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man..
come and hear, all you who fear God,
and I will tell what he has done for my soul.’
Psalm 66.5,16
for so long i have been thinking of God based on what He does for me, or how He answers my prayers. i have been filled with pride to a degree that makes me sick thinking about it. how many times i would cry out to God to rescue me, and then based on the outcome would praise Him or be angry and bitter towards Him.
He has now graciously opened up my eyes and my heart to see this and confess and repent. and to catch a glimpse of How Great He Is. and to realize that He is worthy to receive all the praise, all the glory, all the honor, and all the worship and sacrifices i can give because He is God. He is ‘I AM’. He is is God. Him alone. I am not. i am not in control. i am not worthy to receive the glory. the only good in me.. is Him. i am only saved by His grace through faith and His imputed righteousness on me.
so i have the choice now… to praise Him only when the circumstances are good.
or continue to cry out to Him to remind me that it is not about me. my life is for His glory . so I want to praise Him and offer up sacrifices of praise and worship every day because of who He is.
To then go forth and proclaim what He has done in my life. proclaim His glory and awesome deeds. proclaim His redemption and salvation and everlasting love and grace that is so deep i shall never know the end. every morning… His mercies are new. so this morning, as the sun rises… let us stop.
stop for a time.
and lift up our eyes to Jesus.
and lift up our hands.
singing Hallelujah with the breath that He has given us today.
for one day we will all breath our last breath here on earth and as His child we will be swept up to Heaven and be with Him forever. we will then see Him face to face.
and beholding His glory…. we will fall down in worship, in awe.
For He is God Alone. There is no other.
