You Deserve Worshipers
Our God, Your Name is to be blessed and praised and magnified throughout all generations, and yet, weve let You downour 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, Weve let You down
weve not been worshipers, as Youve desired. Youve asked very little of us. Youve simply sought worshipers and called us to be worshipers
Youve given us everything that pertains to life and godliness. Youve built a wall around the vineyard. Youve dug the winepresses, and Youve planted the choicest vines, as Your servant Isaiah was told. And yet in spite of all that, weve let the thorns and thistles grow in our hearts. We havent glorified You as God. Too many times, weve worshiped the created thingsour own glands and possessions and our own intellects. Weve worshiped such stupid things. Weve 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 personhoodour own selveswe bow before You. Were creatures that are simply lumps of clay, who Youve caused this seed of Life to live withinthis 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 weve made ourselves to be gods again and again and againin the way weve judged ideas and distanced ourselves from people rather than washing their feet. In the way weve 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. Youre worthy to be praised! HOLY, HOLY, HOLY are You! Your riches and wisdom are deepfar beyond tracing out. Weve complained when weve hurt. Weve complained when weve 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 peoplelumps of clay that inhabit the earth. We repent before You. Youre a Great and a Wonderful and an Awesome God.
Youve extended mercy to all generations, as Youve made Yourself clear. Your testimony to the hearts of every human being has been clear. Even in creation itself, Youve made Yourself abundantly clear that every man would be without excuse. And yet weve turned away from You. Were altogether worthless and Youve continued to love us anyway. Father, thank You for the provision Youve 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 Youve loved us and given us a piece of Your very own Life and Spirit. Youve given us an opportunitythough were created a little lower than the angelsto 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. Its our worship of You that calls us to offer our bodies as living sacrifices. We do worship You right now. Were grateful that Youve 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 MagnificentWorthy of Praise and Love and Honor is Your Name. Amen. ____
Read this in my quiet time this morning and thought it very much worth sharing at this time.
God bless you today maryjane |