Worship of The Lord
Good morning! Praise The Lord for this beautiful Sunday!
For Bible study this morning, I picked up Matt Redman's book Facedown. If you ever have the chance to read it, I would definitely recommend it. It teaches that we need to fight the cultural Christian's habit of shrinking God into manageable terms for us to understand. He's not supposed to be understood by us! He is far greater than we could ever hope for in a god or savior.
I have personally struggled with this "putting God in a manageable box" but then have not realised that I have and wonder why he's not working in ways I can see! Silly me!
Redman says "Sometimes in church, I worry that we've settled for 'goldfish' worship. We convey a tame and domesticated God, and then find ourselves stuck in the endless pursuit of the ordinary. But the call is to venture out into the ocean, to encounter the extraordinary and explore the mighty depths of God."
How true is this for my life? I box Him up to be and say what I want but that is NOT Him! It feels so wonderful to make these realisations cause you know you can grow closer to Him and worship Him more though it.
The book makes the point that He does not need us for anything. We can't contribute to Him anything but praise for what He has done for us (and a lot of the time we are too self-consumed for that). He chose to create us, help us, sustain us, die for us, and to secure us a place with Him forever. We must act, in accordance to this, with the upmost reverence of worship- a Facedown prayer at His feet. How amazing is our God? Incredible. Who is like our God? None. He is, at our simplest of terms, spectacular.
The only way of reflecting on these truths is prayer, so I'll leave you with this:
"Have mercy on me; oh God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!"
-Psalm 51:1-2
-I am in awe, but my heart is not afraid
(Other than my fear of The Lord)
For Bible study this morning, I picked up Matt Redman's book Facedown. If you ever have the chance to read it, I would definitely recommend it. It teaches that we need to fight the cultural Christian's habit of shrinking God into manageable terms for us to understand. He's not supposed to be understood by us! He is far greater than we could ever hope for in a god or savior.
I have personally struggled with this "putting God in a manageable box" but then have not realised that I have and wonder why he's not working in ways I can see! Silly me!
Redman says "Sometimes in church, I worry that we've settled for 'goldfish' worship. We convey a tame and domesticated God, and then find ourselves stuck in the endless pursuit of the ordinary. But the call is to venture out into the ocean, to encounter the extraordinary and explore the mighty depths of God."
How true is this for my life? I box Him up to be and say what I want but that is NOT Him! It feels so wonderful to make these realisations cause you know you can grow closer to Him and worship Him more though it.
The book makes the point that He does not need us for anything. We can't contribute to Him anything but praise for what He has done for us (and a lot of the time we are too self-consumed for that). He chose to create us, help us, sustain us, die for us, and to secure us a place with Him forever. We must act, in accordance to this, with the upmost reverence of worship- a Facedown prayer at His feet. How amazing is our God? Incredible. Who is like our God? None. He is, at our simplest of terms, spectacular.
The only way of reflecting on these truths is prayer, so I'll leave you with this:
"Have mercy on me; oh God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!"
-Psalm 51:1-2
-I am in awe, but my heart is not afraid
(Other than my fear of The Lord)
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