So we can love God by loving His World, His
Word, we can also love Him by loving His Works & His Ways.
Loving God through His Works
Say to God, "How awesome are your
deeds! So great is your power that your enemies cringe before you. Psalm 66:3
Come and see what God has done, how awesome his works in man's behalf! Psalm 66:5
I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of
long ago. I will meditate on all your works and consider all your mighty deeds.
Psalm 77:11-12
You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the
peoples. With your mighty arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of
Jacob and Joseph. Selah Psalm 77:14-15
"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their
being." Revelation 4:11
And they sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open
its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for
God from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to
be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the
earth." Revelation 5:9-10
Loving God through His Ways
He made known his ways to Moses, his
deeds to the people of Israel: Psalm
103:7
Come and listen, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me.
Psalm 66:16
3 Psalms on the Beautiful Attributes of God
are Psalm 139, Psalm 145 & Psalm 117.
Take some time this week to consider them. William Temple wrote many years ago.
“Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the
quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His
truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to
His love; the surrender of will to His purpose – and all of this gathered up in
adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and
therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin
and the source of all actual sin.”
Next time we’ll think about, which is
often forgotten in today’s busy world, The Contemplative
Way.
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