I believe that this is one of those things that I have to remember and celebrate in God’s Word, the why I worship Him.
“3And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,
‘Great and amazing are your deeds,
O Lord God the Almighty!
Just and true are your ways,
O King of the nations!
4Who 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.’”
— Revelation 15:3-4 (ESV)
Notice there in verse 3 above, “Great and amazing”, “just and true”. These are those reasons that we worship God. He is “great and amazing” and “just and true”, not just His actions or works in my life, but His character is all those as well. I can count on Him for all things.
Yes, I do know that God will allow me to suffer hardship and difficulty. But notice the way I have stated that, he will “allow” for those things to occur. He does not cause them, just as our parents and guardians and others of authority in our lives. We have the choice and need to experience adversity in order to grow, but God does not make us suffer, He only allows us to experience it in order that we may learn from it and grow stronger for it.
God is great and amazing and just and true. In those are descriptive words, are realism that the world is sorely missing as they chase after all things for themselves. The just and true are not always what we want to have or experience, but they are generally what we need to experience in order to grow. I have to learn to embrace all that God allows me to experience, knowing that I am growing for it.
And that is why I worship God. For He is “great and amazing” and “just and true” in all that He does for and in my life. I am grateful for the love and provision and blessings and adversity that God allows in my life. He knows what I need and gives accordingly, and for that I worship Him.
What does God allow in your life? Are you experiencing that which you did not/ do not expect, like adversity? What if we embraced all that we experience and know that God is indeed “great and amazing” and “just and true” in all that He allows in our lives?
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