All About Him

"When the music fades, all is stripped away, and I simply come..."

When we come to worship God - in our private place, in church, anywhere - it's all about what we can get from it, or how those leading worship can please us.  Um, NO!!!  Something's wrong with that picture.  Something's missing from that picture... or more precisely, someONE is missing!  GOD.  Yes, GOD. 

READ:  Psalm 29

See verse 2?  "Worship the Lord in the splendour of His holiness".  That's what it says, and that's what it means - worship GOD.  Don't worship the worship leader, or the musician(s), or the building in which we worship, or the music, or... well, anything or anyone other than GOD.

"It's all about you, Jesus, and all this is for you, for the glory of your name, it's not about me, as if you should do things my way, you alone are God and I surrender, to your name"

The words of this chorus say it all, don't you think.  It's all about GOD - it's not all about you, nor me, nor anyone nor anything else.  It's all about GOD.  He alone is worthy of our praise; He alone is the one to whom we direct our worship.  The Bible doesn't say worship stuff, but it does say worship GOD. 

• Where is your focus today - on you or stuff in your life, or on God?
• What are you doing to keep your focus on God, where it should be?
• What do you do to help keep your focus on God?

Someone who used to attend our church used to make this remark:  'Focus, people, focus'.  A very... well, focused remark, to say the least.  If you come to church to see what they can offer you, or to see what you can 'get out of it', then you need a focus-shift.  You see, it really isn't all about you, no matter what you might think - it is indeed all about God.  When we have nothing else - when everything else is stripped away - we simply come to God, and worship Him in the splendour of His holiness.

I mean, really, is there any better way!?!?

PRAYER

God, sometimes it's not easy to keep our focus where it ought to be, so we need help.  God, please help us to bask in your presence, to keep focused on you... always!
Amen.