After this I saw a vast crowd, too great to
count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front
of the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes and held
palm branches in their hands. And they were shouting with a great roar,
"Salvation comes from our God who sits on the throne and from the
Lamb!" And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the
elders and the four living beings. And they fell before the throne with their
faces to the ground and worshiped God. They sang, "Amen! Blessing and
glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength
belong to our God forever and ever! Amen." Revelation 7:9-12
Even the angels recognized that wisdom was
a quality that belonged to God. Like us, He created the angels and His wisdom
is far above theirs or ours. The crowd viewing the throne stood in worship of
God …while the angels humbly with their faces to the ground also worshiped God.
Everyone was worshipping. Heaven will be glorious for the time of worship.
Singing and praising. God will finally have the relationship He created man to
have with Him. Pure and focused. All the crowd of people—to great to count—will
be worshipping God—acknowledging His wisdom, power, glory and love.
We don’t have to wait until we get to
heaven to worship God—we don’t even have to wait until Sunday. We can give Him
the praise that is due Him every day…in every minute of every day. God wants us
to worship Him. Through Moses He actually commanded the Hebrew people to
worship Him alone.
You must not bow down to them or worship
them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your
affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their
children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth
generations of those who reject me. Exodus 20:5
God expressed that worship should be a
family thing. If parents worship another god, then likewise the children will…and
they will be punished.
Additionally, Jesus taught that we are to
worship in truth. But the time is coming—indeed
it's here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in
truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship Him that way. For God
is Spirit, so those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth." John
4:23-24. What, who or how are you worshipping today?
© 2016 by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
All scripture quoted from the New Living Translation (NLT)
unless otherwise noted.
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