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MaryJane
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 You Deserve Worshipers

You Deserve Worshipers

Our God, Your Name is to be blessed and praised and magnified throughout all generations, and yet, we’ve let You down—our generation has let You down. Maybe other generations have as well. But we look You in the face right now, bowing our heads before You and say, “We’ve let You down…we’ve not been worshipers, as You’ve desired.” You’ve asked very little of us. You’ve simply sought worshipers and called us to be worshipers

You’ve given us everything that pertains to life and godliness. You’ve built a wall around the vineyard. You’ve dug the winepresses, and You’ve planted the choicest vines, as Your servant Isaiah was told. And yet in spite of all that, we’ve let the thorns and thistles grow in our hearts. We haven’t glorified You as God. Too many times, we’ve worshiped the created things—our own glands and possessions and our own intellects. We’ve worshiped such stupid things. We’ve deliberately ignored the fact that You are God and we have chosen to worship the created thing, rather than the Creator who is ever to be praised.

Our God, in shame, as representatives of the human race, as well as of our own households and our own personhood—our own selves—we bow before You. We’re creatures that are simply lumps of clay, who You’ve caused this seed of Life to live within—this germ of personality, of soul, of spirit, of mind, the vitality of Life that came straight from Your heart, that we have no ability to comprehend. No scientist has ever been able to define “life.” These things are purely and clearly from You, and yet somehow we’ve made ourselves to be “gods” again and again and again—in the way we’ve judged ideas and distanced ourselves from people rather than washing their feet. In the way we’ve cut ourselves off from Your Holy Spirit and seared our own consciences to Your voice, Your life, Your love and to Your liberty. Our God, we repent like Job in sackcloth and ashes.

You deserve worshipers. “From You and through You and to You are all things now and forever, age without end.” You’re worthy to be praised! HOLY, HOLY, HOLY are You! Your riches and wisdom are deep—far beyond tracing out. We’ve complained when we’ve hurt. We’ve complained when we’ve been slighted, or when injustices supposedly have happened to us. What is injustice, oh God? We deserve HELL! What is injustice? Why does a lump of clay complain? We have no right! Why do we do this?? We repent, as representatives of all of humanity, this puny race of people—lumps of clay that inhabit the earth. We repent before You. You’re a Great and a Wonderful and an Awesome God.

You’ve extended mercy to all generations, as You’ve made Yourself clear. Your testimony to the hearts of every human being has been clear. Even in creation itself, You’ve made Yourself abundantly clear that every man would be without excuse. And yet we’ve turned away from You. We’re altogether worthless and You’ve continued to love us anyway. Father, thank You for the provision You’ve extended to an unworthy population, to an unworthy race of people. Surely the deer in the field and the groundhogs and the kitty cats are far more worthy than we are. And yet You’ve loved us and given us a piece of Your very own Life and Spirit. You’ve given us an opportunity—though we’re created a little lower than the angels—to participate with You in the unseen world, in this life and in the life to come.

Glory to Your Name, Oh God! We have no words, but surely in view of Your vast mercy, we can offer our bodies as living sacrifices. We can reckon ourselves dead to sin. We can say to You and to the host of unseen forces as well as to one another, and to Your enemies, “Sin shall no longer be our master.” You deserve our heart, our soul, our mind, and our strength. “Hear, O Israel.” We want to love You with everything within us, “In view of Your mercy.” It’s our worship of You that calls us to offer our bodies as living sacrifices. We do worship You right now. We’re grateful that You’ve given us the opportunity to do that. We want to stop grieving Your Spirit, and we want to hear Your voice and harden not our hearts…maybe for the first time ever. Thank You for Your provision in Your Son, Jesus. And thank You for leaving Your Spirit until the work on earth is done. Great and Most Holy and Magnificent—Worthy of Praise and Love and Honor is Your Name. Amen.
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Read this in my quiet time this morning and thought it very much worth sharing at this time.

God bless you today
maryjane

 2011/6/12 8:28Profile





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