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Good morning and welcome to our daily walk.
Every Sunday morning millions of people fill auditoriums all across this great country in order to worship. We get up early on Sunday morning, put on the best we have, fight to get the kids dressed and ready to leave on time, load our families in the car, scream at each other the whole way to the building and then walk in as if we are ready to offer up meaningful worship to God.
Look around next Sunday morning and notice the expression on most faces. Notice the way everyone is so easily distracted from what they need to be doing. People gather every first day of the week with the intent to worship God. Unfortunately, most people don’t have the proper understanding of who they are worshipping. Thus, they are easily distracted because of their misunderstanding. This week I would like for us to look into the God that we serve.
In Acts 17 Paul is at Athens preaching on Mars Hill. He tells the people that he observed that they were religious. The problem was that he saw an altar with the inscription, “To an unknown God” (Acts 17:22-23). These people were just like us today. They gathered together to worship just like we do. They wanted to do what was right. They were religious people like us. The problem was that they, just like many people today, did not understand the God that they worshipped. Paul explained God to the
If we want our worship today to be meaningful and uplifting, then we must have a better understanding of the God that we serve. In John 4 Jesus told the Samaritan woman, “You worship what you do not know” (v.22). How many of us does this describe? There are many things about God that we do not know but that doesn’t mean we can’t know God. If fact the Bible reveals a lot about God. In Psalm 90 we read, “Before the mountains were born or you gave birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God” (v.2). The psalmists point out that God is eternal. This means that He had no beginning and has no end. He has always been and will always be. This helps to explain the intelligent design of the universe. God has always been, thus making Him responsible for the creation of the universe.
We can also know that God is wise. The wise man said in Proverbs 3, “The Lord by wisdom founded the earth, by understanding He established the heavens” (v. 19). It is obvious when one studies the complexity of the universe that someone must have known what they were doing. Everything is precise and exact. There is no other way to explain it other than by a wise supernatural being.
God is also mentioned as being faithful. The psalmist said, “I will sing of the lovingkindness of the Lord forever; to all generations I will make known Your faithfulness with my mouth. For I have said, lovingkindness will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish Your faithfulness” (Psa. 89:1-2). The psalmist said that he would make known God’s faithfulness with his mouth. The Bible is clear that God is faithful. Throughout God’s word one will find several promises, both conditional and unconditional. No matter which it is we read about, we can know that God will be faithful to those promises.
Not only is God faithful, but God is also love. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whosoever believes in Him, should not perish but have eternal life.” The fact that God was willing to give His son as the ultimate sacrifice to pay for the sins of mankind demonstrates God’s love. It not only demonstrates His love but it demonstrates that He is love. John said, “The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love” (I Jn. 4.8). God is love.
It is my hope and prayer that we will all come to a better understanding of the God that we worship.
Our thought for the day: “People see God every day, they just don't recognize him” (Pearl Bailey).
May God bless you in your daily walk.
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