Serious Worship

People are pretty serious about their peanut butter!  Most women [I know] faithfully buy one of the two major brands with no wiggle-room.  Then there’s the sandwich – some like their peanut butter sandwich with jelly, some like it with bananas, and some just want the butter.  Whatever and whichever … PB is serious business!

 

God’s Word leaves nothing to the imagination – all we need and need to know is there!  I could ask Mr. Bill, “What color was his tie or did he have a jacket on?”  Mr. Bill wouldn’t notice those things because [quite frankly] he would classify those details as … jello (his word for it-don’t-matter).  John described more than Jesus’ attire in John 1:14: “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”  In the years following His birth, Jesus not only talked about His Father but showed us what God was like.  His residency here was temporary yet divinely specific: to pay the penalty for our waywardness, providing a way to bring us back to The Father. He allowed nothing distract Him from His purpose!  Grace and Truth were His mantra – His every move on-track!  Was this grace-clothed Word amazing?  Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing! O come let us adore Him – O come, let us adore Him – O come, let us adore Him – Christ the Lord!  We are to be diligent about the honor we bring to The King – it’s serious business!  Glory to God in the highest!  Hallelujah and amen!