AUGUST 10

WORSHIP THE CREATOR

“Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountain of waters.” (Rev. 14:7)

Paul wrote of those “who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.” (Rom. 1:25).

More and more, from deep within the heart of God’s elect, there rises that desire to worship God, to exalt Him, to lift Him up, to magnify His name. Far too long man has laboured under the delusion of his own “godship” as if he was capable of deciding his own destiny, and the power in himself to fulfill it. Gladly do we now surrender all to our Lord Jesus Christ, that it may be HIS LIFE lived through us, while our own self-will is dealt with by His cross, and our will becomes subservient to His will in all things.

The story is given: “A certain infidel was reported to have raised his hand and dared God, if there be a God, to bring it down. Now the case was such that the infidel was bald, and there was a fly buzzing around which at that very moment landed on this bald pate and tickled it, and without hesitation down came the hand and swatted the fly. Thus God had answered the fool according to his folly, not by a mighty act of omnipotence, but by a seemingly insignificant weakness of a little fly.”

This infidel’s declaration act was prompted by a desire for fame, this he inherited from his human nature. Alone on an island somewhere he would never have done such a thing. Next, his baldness was not of his own will, for man does not will to be bald with a sensitive skin. Then we see how God used this man’s will against itself. He willed to hold his hand up, but the tickle of the fly was far more momentous in his life than the existence of God, so while he willed to hold up his hand, he also willed to swat the fly, and God, setting man’s own will against itself, defeated itself.

Ray Prinzing