So…I was wondering…do you have a problem sometimes remembering that you are not God?
Can I just say, sometimes actions speak louder than words.
Cause if I’m going to be honest here, I certainly know I’m not God, but there are times when I sure try to play God. Like I gotta fix what I can’t fix and change what I can’t change or like I gotta get in people’s business and get in people’s heads.
It takes a lot of prayer to refrain from “sharing my wisdom” with my completely clever sons and “giving my advice” to my perfectly adept husband or “teaching my knowledge” to my totally savvy friends. (When they don’t ask, of course. If they ask, hey, that’s different.)
Most of the time, I have to remind myself that “listening” is better than “talking.” I tend to talk too much. (I gotta lot to say!!! Doesn’t everybody?!?)
Sometimes, I think God just shakes His head at me and says, “HellooOoo…remember Me?”
It never hurts to remind myself of the character of God.
It never hurts to remind myself I’m a little lower than God…
I’m down here. He’s up there.
Higher. Loftier. Above all things. Over all things. Wiser. Smarter. Excellent.
David reminds us twice in Psalm 8,
“O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth!”
How powerful. How great. How glorious. How mighty. How noble. How worthy.
How magnificent!!
I’m getting all excited just typing out those synonyms. Who doesn’t gain a proper perspective when considering the majesty of God? Who? I ask you.
David…somehow…always managed to bring himself out of a slump, out of depression, out of despair by focusing on God’s character. By giving God the praise that is due His great name.
Circumstances may change, but God never does. He can’t change. He’s incapable of changing.
He will always be great. Always be glorious. Always be mighty. Always be noble.
Always magnificent!
I think of David’s humble beginnings. The youngest son of Jesse. A shepherd. The lowliest of occupations. Yet, David rose to such prominence. He brought worship back to the hearts of God’s people.
Worship: the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity. Another way of saying, “giving someone his/her worth”.
For me, for those who love the Lord-the one true God, it’s giving Him praise and honor and glory. It’s adoration, exaltation, devotion. It’s to cherish Him, treasure Him, esteem Him. (And if I don’t stop, I’m gonna start bawling like a baby ’cause there’s just something about all this that stirs my soul.)
David, God bless him, just had a heart of worship, for worship. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if spending so many nights under the starry sky, while he kept watch over his flock by night, developed an understanding and a knowledge about the greatness of God that few of us will ever truly grasp.
I know how I felt one morning several years ago at the beach. I woke up way too early for the sunrise. It was cold, but I decided to pass the time by lying on my back atop a grassy dune. I stared up into the heavens. The sky still so dark, but the stars still so bright. I stretched my arms out, palms up and I sang. Before I knew it, the stars began to rain down. One shooting star after another.
And the heavens declared the glory of God.
I’ll never forget it. I remind myself of it often.
How big God is. How small I am.
I imagine it’s how David felt, too. Night after night. Gazing into the heavens. He got a taste of God’s majesty.
And he was forever changed. His heart would never be the same. His heart would always want to be near the heart of God. His heart would always want to remember the worth of God. His heart just would not be satisfied if it did not worship.
“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him?
Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty!” verses 4- 5
Alone with God, in the quiet and stillness of the night, David truly saw God. He considered, reflected, pondered, inspected, and He believed. He believed that God was real because He experienced God’s presence for himself.
Romans 1:20 says, For since the creation of the world His (God’s) invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, that they (men) are without excuse.”
Yes. There’s enough evidence in all of Creation to stir our hearts toward God. There is enough proof for us to see. To know. To perceive. To consider.
Sometimes I need to remind myself that although God has given me much and created me to bring Him glory, I am still very small when compared with all of His vastness, His wideness, His deepness. I am still very weak when compared with all of His power, His might, His strength.
Without Him, I am nothing. I can do nothing. But with Him I can do much, according to His work within me. According to how much I give Him control.
And to think…He crowns me with glory and majesty! verse 5
Who am I, O God? Who am I?
Yes, I need Him very, very badly. And, yes, I tell Him so. All the time.
One of the hardest things, sometimes, is to worship God when I don’t feel like it. When I’m in a slump. When I’m feeling depressed. But, honestly, those are the times when I need to consider the character of God the most.
Because His wisdom, His knowledge, His advice is greater. Higher. Loftier. Above all things. Over all things. It never hurts to remind myself of His attributes. His eternal power. His divine nature.
It never hurts to remember the stars raining down on me.
Because in those precious moments with my God, I was so awed I was completely silent. Speechless. I had no words.
Listening was so much better than talking.
Because the heavens were saying it all, HellooOoo….remember Me?
Yep. It never hurts to remind myself…
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