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December 22, 2011

Revelation 15:3–4

“Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations! 4 Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”

Do you ever come across a passage of scripture that just sort of stops you? Like you’re reading along, and then all of a sudden something inside of you just sort of….stalls.

I couldn’t move past this passage this morning. It stopped me.

I think it stopped me for two reasons. The first is that the general thematic elements of this passage – the all-consuming Glory of God, his power, justice, righteousness…those are all things that I REALLY BELIEVE to be true…and yet I know that I still struggle with allowing the truth of them to affect my daily living.

I don’t question God’s glory, I don’t doubt His sovereignty….and yet I still try to control things, and work for my own Glory. I still stress about money and materialism…..

And I wish I wouldn’t.

The second reason why it stopped me I think is simply because of the mental picture here. I mean we have a sea of Glass and fire, with people all around it with harps singing this song…I mean it’s such an incredible vibrant picture of worship…

And I want to be a part of it.

So Jesus this morning, I simply have stopped…and in stopping you have reminded me yet again of the depravity of my heart…of my constant need to submit the desires of the world that seem so appealing to me so that YOUR glory can become my ultimate concern. In stopping you have touched me with the beauty of the majestic worship that will take place when all is made right…and although there is still so much mystery for me surrounding those things…I can say that I really am excited to spend my eternity worshipping you…

Thanks for stopping me today.

B.

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