This came in my inbox today from my friend Nathan
He is reading through “Streams in the Desert” and especially the devotionals by George Mueller, (which is one of my Heroes of the Faith)
While talking about trials and suffering in our lives, Mueller stops teaching for a second and asks:
“Are you able to genuinely say, from your knowledge of God and your relationship with Him, that He is indeed a beautiful Being? If not, let me graciously encourage you to ask God to take you to that point, so that you will fully appreciate His gentleness and kindness, so you will be able to say just how good He is, and so you will know what a delight it is to God’s heart to do good for His children. The closer we come to this point in our inner being, the more willing we are to leave ourselves in His hands and the more satisfied we are with all of His dealings with us.”Wow, let that sink in. Is God a beautiful Being? Too often I treat and see God like a "useful" Being - what He can do for me. But to see Him as a "beautiful Being" - I will be chewing on this for a while.
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wow.. makes you think..
We should not only turn to God when we are in need. Since I am the worship leader at my church, I really try to help people see this. We need to really worship God for who He is. A wonderful, beautiful, saving, righteous and just God. God is on your side, but we need to first see God for who He is, GOD! This is the basic difference between worship and praise. Worship is thanking God for Who He is and praise is thanking God for what he has done. We worship the beautiful God and we praise teh useful God. We must do both! Amen!
Certainly we are to thank Him for what He has done...but where my heart goes off track is when I treat God as someone who is here to merely serve me...God is not a butler who is waiting on me when I ring a bell..He is someone with whom must be worshiped.
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