Father, May I Worship? – Come Let Us Worship the King! – May 7

Father, May I Worship?
May 7, 2021

Come, Let Us Worship the King!

Psalm 63:1-4, ‘God—You’re my God! I can’t get enough of You! I’ve worked up such a hunger and thirst for God, traveling across dry and weary deserts. So here I am in the place of worship, eyes open, drinking in Your strength and glory. In Your generous love, I am really living at last! My lips brim praises like fountains. I bless You every time I take a breath; my arms wave like banners of praise to You.’ (MSG)

Yesterday we talked about worshiping false idols and foreign gods, fake saviors and fallen images. Anything we choose to put before the One True God, anything that garners all our attention and infatuation, anything we pursue with our intentions, anything that requires more of us than we have to give to God, anything that we serve and placate above our relationship with our heavenly Father—those are all false gods and graven images. Even something that can be considered good can become an item of idolatry if we make it the ultimate thing in our lives. Anything we put before God in our heart is an idol.

Satan wanted to be worshiped like God. That’s when the collapse of what God had created in the very beginning occurred in the Garden of Eden. He began whispering in Eve’s ear, seducing her to disobey and causing her to question what God had commanded. Ever since the beginning of time, Satan has used manipulative ways to portray false gods to mankind to follow and worship and pledge allegiance to. The sad thing is we succumb, and items and even human beings, become ‘all that’ to us; and pretty soon God is replaced by something that was never intended to fulfill. We sometimes expect so much of the people and things in our lives to fulfill a purpose that God reserved inside His creation for just Him. We have high expectations of others, and when they fail us, and fall from pedestals of adoration and grace, our own ideals and values, our worlds, crumble because we were ‘let down’ by something that was never meant to render perfection.

There is a God though Who is for real, Who is deserving of all our praise and honor. In fact, He inhabits the praises of His people, which in Hebrew the word ‘inhabit’ literally means to ‘pitch a tent’. So, this God, the God of the universe, the Maker of heaven and earth, the King above all Kings, also is a personal God, a Father to His children, and He desires to inhabit, or pitch a tent, in the middle of your worship of Him. He is not just an image nor is He false, and He sent His Son to be the continuous bridge between Him and His children so that relationships could be born. He didn’t want for us to create falsities to be beholden to. This God is very much alive! He loves you and me so much, and He desires a personal relationship with each of us that overflows in praise.

I want to know the Father’s opinion about everything!
Won’t you JOURNEY with me this month as we ask our Father, ‘MAY I?’’