Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Reupholstering my chair 🏡 Ascribe to the Lord...



Psalm 29:1-4
Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.  The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

The ultimate priority of man is to worship our Creator.
God created mankind to worship Him. Worship is not an option; it is a command.
And our source of life and blessing comes from God.
We owe our very life to Him. It is a contradiction for a believer not to worship the LORD.
We are to acknowledge His majesty, His power, His authority, His splendor, and His greatness.
We are to do this both privately and with others believers.
We are to Worship our God no matter what is going on in our lives, for He is truly Worthy. We must never neglect to worship our source of life.

In the Gospel of Matthew chapter 13, verses 3 – 9 Jesus tells the parable of “The sower,” where it speaks of the seed falling on good ground and hard and stony ground… this parable tells us about the different conditions of the heart.

And one of the most powerful ways to till the soil of the heart is through worship.
As we open our hearts and God pours His love out on us…
When we worship… our hearts naturally become soft and receptive to God’s love.

One way we worship is through music. You see, God created music with a natural ability to affect us.
Music is able to fill us with peace, and joy.
Music can cause tears to flow from our eyes.
And it’s through music, that the Holy Spirit is also able to till the soil of our hearts and to fill us with the seeds of God’s presence and His perfect character.

The Bible continually tells us to worship through song.
And in Colossians 3:16, we are told, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.”

Scripture stresses the importance of worship because the Lord longs for us to live and respond to His presence and His plans…

When we worship our hearts flow towards eternity…
To the One we will spend eternity with!

I’ve often wondered why people claim that faith must be private.
Something so wonderful, so powerful, so meaningful as faith in the creator of the universe is something that begs to be made known.
 It is something that should yearn to get out and let others know.
All creation is aware of this reality.
Jesus said that if our voices ceased to praise God then the very rocks would cry out to the praise and the glory of God.
If we believe in a God who sits enthroned as King forever…
If we have faith in a Lord whose very voice gives birth to the deer and strips the trees bare.
Then we must cry Holy, and Declare His glory!
We not must keep it not to ourselves… in the hidden recesses of our heart…
but declare it, sing it, and shout it out loud, for the King of Glory sits on high!

Just a thought… we are talking of the God of creation.
Yet how quickly we reduce Him in our hearts to a person more like us.
We are more comfortable with a God who is always there to help and guide us rather than a God of judgment, strength, and power over all the earth.
Who deserves to be Worshiped!

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