“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. Deut. 6:4-6
I am so terrible about dropping my sunglasses. I don't know what it is about a new pair of expensive sun glasses but as soon as I get them its like a love connection takes over and some way some how they find the pavement and they get all scratched up. And of course the scratches are never on the edge ...no... they are right in the middle of my lenses so that my line of sight is affected. From that moment on everything I see is now scratched & distorted. But what eventually happens after about a week... my eyes adjust and I stop seeing the scratches. I simply just learn to go on and live with this distorted view. I am reminded of that this morning because I think I often do the very same thing as it relates to my worship of God.
The question I am asking this morning is this ... am I seeing the God who is or the God I want Him to be? The reality is that what I see or "don't" see about God will affect how I worship him. So bottom line my passion to know & worship God will be directly connected to my perception of who he is. It sounds simple right... have the right "thinking" about God and that will translate into right worship. But there is a problem... what if my lenses are "scratched up"? What if what I see about God is actually a distortion of who He really is? For example if I really do not see God as He is ... the God who absolutely and extravagantly loves me with a limitless love than how can I ever worship him without feeling like I will never be good enough? Oh how my life, love and worship of God changed when I discovered that He loves me regardless of my "performances" or non performances in the Christian life. You see a love like that changes how you live! Now I understand what Paul means when he says "...for the love of Christ compels me..."
You see the truth is that there is ONE LORD and ONE GOD... and God's word describes for us the reality of just who this amazing God really is! God is totally and wholly other than anything else in this universe. There is nothing that even comes close to who He is! And when I do not see God clearly as He is then I do not worship him as he deserves! What I end up doing in essence is I end up trying to worship a "god" I wish existed instead of the GOD who is! I end worshiping a god that I have made into what I want him to be!
You see it easier to live & worship with a less than adequate view of God. It is easier to live with a lie than deal with the truth. Because if I truly worship God in Spirit and in truth, then whatever doesn't line up with his nature and His life, and his character must change!
God my prayer today is that you would search me and show me anything and everything that keeps me from seeing you for WHO YOU REALLY ARE! Lord I pray that you would turn my eyes away from worthless things! And restore me in your ways!!!
Not Ashamed...Bill
I am so terrible about dropping my sunglasses. I don't know what it is about a new pair of expensive sun glasses but as soon as I get them its like a love connection takes over and some way some how they find the pavement and they get all scratched up. And of course the scratches are never on the edge ...no... they are right in the middle of my lenses so that my line of sight is affected. From that moment on everything I see is now scratched & distorted. But what eventually happens after about a week... my eyes adjust and I stop seeing the scratches. I simply just learn to go on and live with this distorted view. I am reminded of that this morning because I think I often do the very same thing as it relates to my worship of God.
The question I am asking this morning is this ... am I seeing the God who is or the God I want Him to be? The reality is that what I see or "don't" see about God will affect how I worship him. So bottom line my passion to know & worship God will be directly connected to my perception of who he is. It sounds simple right... have the right "thinking" about God and that will translate into right worship. But there is a problem... what if my lenses are "scratched up"? What if what I see about God is actually a distortion of who He really is? For example if I really do not see God as He is ... the God who absolutely and extravagantly loves me with a limitless love than how can I ever worship him without feeling like I will never be good enough? Oh how my life, love and worship of God changed when I discovered that He loves me regardless of my "performances" or non performances in the Christian life. You see a love like that changes how you live! Now I understand what Paul means when he says "...for the love of Christ compels me..."
You see the truth is that there is ONE LORD and ONE GOD... and God's word describes for us the reality of just who this amazing God really is! God is totally and wholly other than anything else in this universe. There is nothing that even comes close to who He is! And when I do not see God clearly as He is then I do not worship him as he deserves! What I end up doing in essence is I end up trying to worship a "god" I wish existed instead of the GOD who is! I end worshiping a god that I have made into what I want him to be!
You see it easier to live & worship with a less than adequate view of God. It is easier to live with a lie than deal with the truth. Because if I truly worship God in Spirit and in truth, then whatever doesn't line up with his nature and His life, and his character must change!
God my prayer today is that you would search me and show me anything and everything that keeps me from seeing you for WHO YOU REALLY ARE! Lord I pray that you would turn my eyes away from worthless things! And restore me in your ways!!!
Not Ashamed...Bill
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