"Describe To Me"

     We live in a time where we have the ability to share information like never before.  We can instantly send information in written or picture form anywhere in the world.  There are computer applications that allow us to translate from one language to another language allowing us to communicate with those we would have never been able to otherwise.  Yet there are things, try as we might, that are beyond our ability to share.  Can the lover of the outdoors truly share the felling of watching the sun come up over the horizon on a pristine valley?  Can you accurately describe the feeling of the first time you believed you were in love?  What words can describe the moment when a father and mother look into the eyes of their new born child?  After thirty-nine years of marriage I can’t completely describe to you the feeling of sliding my feet over in the middle of the night just to touch my wife’s feet and know she is there.  There are somethings, with all that we have, that are beyond our ability to completely understand.  Tell me of God.  Speaking to the Athenians about God on Mars’ hill Paul said, “That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:  For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring (Acts 17:27-28).”  In him we have our very being.  The Alpha and Omega, the great I Am.  With a word all that is, was created from nothing.  From the dust of the earth man was created and God breathed life into him.  Who can understand the majesty of such an awesome God?  Recently I passed a church building and out front on the sign was this statement, “Casual worship” and then it gave a time.  I know many have made an effort to take away what they perceive as the formality of worship and look to make it something everyone feels comfortable with but the God that I read about in scripture deserves far more than casual.  He has adopted me into his family, the price being the life of his holy son, that I may be called a child of God.  In our efforts to make worship more audience friendly, let us not forget that we gather together to worship, yes worship not entertain, one that is far beyond my understanding.  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:8-9).  As we seek God let us not forget to reverence him for he is holy.  How can we approach him casually?  O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?  For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever (Rom. 11:33-36).  May we always strive to give unto him the honor, glory and respect that he is due.  Worship is for him, not for my entertainment or comfort.