Not A Bother

Often finding himself in unanticipated predicaments, Pooh is famous for saying, “Oh bother!”  Basically, Pooh was saying [to whomever would listen or help] – oh what trouble or care or worry!  In his book Whatever Happened to Worship?, A. W. Tozer writes, “It is my assessment that losing the awareness of God in our midst is a loss too terrible even to be appraised.”  Whether we are about our daily business or obediently assembling with other Believers in worship, are we aware of the sacredness of God’s Presence?  Israel’s newly appointed leader learned the awesomeness of God’s Presence early in his term: “Now when Joshua was by Jericho he looked up, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his drawn sword in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, ‘Are you for us or for our adversaries?’ He said, ‘No; rather I have come now as captain of the army of the LORD.’ Then Joshua fell with his face toward the earth and bowed down, and said to him, ‘What does my lord have to say to his servant?’ The captain of the LORD’S army said to Joshua, ‘Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you are standing is holy.’ And Joshua did so.” (Joshua 5:13-15). In similar fashion to Moses, this was Joshua’s “burning bush” moment! How very quickly we forget or how deliberately we ignore the call of Christ that all we are for Him is sacred.  Because God’s Presence is with us always, we must never be so flippant or too familiar with the Godly holiness to which we’ve been called!  Moses was tending sheep, Joshua was training warriors, Ruth was gathering wheat, Martha was preparing a meal – all aware of The Father and His call upon their lives.  In whatever position, situation or place you find yourself this week, may it be with [perhaps] a new and profound awareness the ground upon which you stand is never a bother but rather a holy attitude and act of worship!