We Were Made to Worship Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? —Jeremiah 2:5 Now we were made to worship, but the Scriptures tell us something else again. They tell us that man fell and kept not his first estate; that he forfeited the original glory of God and failed to fulfill the creative purpose, so that he is not worshiping now in the way that God meant him to worship. All else fulfills its design; flowers are still fragrant and lilies are still beautiful and the bees still search for nectar amongst the flowers; the birds still sing with their thousand-voice choir on a summers day, and the sun and the moon and the stars all move on their rounds doing the will of God. And from what we can learn from the Scriptures we believe that the seraphim and cherubim and powers and dominions are still fulfilling their design—worshiping God who created them and breathed into them the breath of life. Man alone sulks in his cave. Man alone, with all of his brilliant intelligence, with all of his amazing, indescribable and wonderful equipment, still sulks in his cave. He is either silent, or if he opens his mouth at all, it is to boast and threaten and curse; or its nervous ill-considered laughter, or its humor become big business, or its songs without joy. WMJ006-007 Lord, somehow do today the much-needed work of bringing us out of our caves that we might be drawn to once again do what we were created to do. Amen. Tozer on the Almighty God: A 366-Day Devotional.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:15:29 +0000
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