I recently attended a worship seminar in which the speaker talked to us about our need to recognize the overwhelming truth about who God is – bigger and more amazing than our minds can possibly fathom.
Examining my own prayers makes it obvious I’m not there yet. I tend to limit God in what I ask for and at times even try to guide him to the “right” answer. How presumptuous of me! This is a God who took nothing and created light and water and beauty. He engineered the rising of the sun and the turning of the planets. He designed the eruption of earth to form majestic mountains, the gentle ebb and flow of the ocean and the weightless soaring of a bird on wing. Can I not trust that He knows the perfect answer as well as the perfect timing in response to my prayer?
The second thing our speaker told us was that to truly worship God I must come to grips with the brutal facts about who I am – a depraved sinner adopted by that Great amazing bigger-than-I-can-fathom God. I have to admit that even in my most fervent, most pious, most devout moment – I don’t come anywhere close to deserving what God has done for me.
As I wrestled with these two concepts my very soul opened to another beautiful truth about my God. It is that the tiniest, most insignificant, minute little creature that burrows beneath the rock and digs its escape deep down into the earth to hide is still not invisible to God. His powerful eyes have no trouble spotting this microscopic speck of life. But here’s the truly amazing thing about the eyes of God – they look on me and can’t see the truth of who I am because they are blinded by the beautiful covering of the blood of Jesus Christ!
The eyes of God look at us, the heart of God swells, the grace of God pours out, and the love of God rushes like a mighty river over us – drowning us in mercy and compassion, gentleness and forgiveness, kindness and goodness.
God looks at us,
sees Christ,
and says, “What’s not to love?”
How can you not fall down and worship such a mighty God?
Psalm 109:30 With my mouth I will greatly extol the LORD;
in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him. (NIV)