Tuesday, November 26, 2013

In the Unknown--God Makes Himself Known

So often our worship is dependent on our perception of how God is working in our lives. With human minds and emotions, we limit God's glory to our own understanding.
Scriptures states that no one can fathom the greatness of God but yet we are guilty of trying to compare God's greatness to what we can see, feel, and understand.
When God is doing great things in our lives we sing out louder, we lift our hands and hearts more boldly to Him, but when seasons of pain and heartache arrive, our worship fades and our hearts go into hiding.

God is Still Great
God is Still Working
God is Still in Control

Just because our minds can't understand the journey, just because our hearts are burdened with the unknown, doesn't mean that God is not still working.
We should sing louder, lift our hands higher and give God even greater praise in the unknown, because it is in those moments that God's greatness surpasses our own understanding.  In the unknown God becomes known--not by our own understanding but in God's greatness does He work all things together.

I don't want my worship to be dependent on what I know of God.  I want my worship to be for all that I don't know, all that I can't fathom--God is God.  Worship is praising God for the unknown-for His great mystery and wonder.

There are areas in my life that I have no control over--my heart longs and yearns but empty handed I stand.  I choose to lift those empty hands in worship to God and not because I demand anything in return from Him but because His ways are greater than my own.
I lift my hands because I would rather be consumed by God's wonder than my own fear.  I want a life beyond what I can fathom--I want a life designed by God.
I lift my hands to be consumed by His wonder and hope--because it is in the unknown that God makes Himself known to me.