Wonder & Mystery (4 days til Facedown)

With Facedown right around the corner, I have to say a few words about all the exciting things happening at TNC. I spoke with Jenny Lou Jones (aka Mama Chick) this evening and she said the CHICKS Retreat was a smashing success! I think they had around 110 ladies there. And then we are having Nicol Sponberg sing with us in the morning. That is always a treat! That girl can SANG! Then next week we will start our third morning service. It is very exciting to see the seams busting out because God is changing lives in the CSRA!

So today's passage is from Nahum 1:2-7. If you don't know where Nahum is, go to Matthew and hang a left for about 5 or 6 books. It's right after Micah and right before Habakkuk. I'm not going to quote the whole passage, but it is definitely worth a read!

Nahum 1:3c | ...the clouds are the dust on His (God's) feet.

Worship can sometimes become a meaningless practice. We go through the routine of singing and listening to the message on Sunday, but any type of worship doesn't exist beyond that. One of the big reasons for this is because we lose our sense of wonder and mystery for God. He's just another compartment of our lives that we open up for a few hours and then put back on the shelf.

What we need is to put ourselves in views of God that make our brains hurt. We need to see Him for how big and powerful He is. I love the first part of verse 3: "The LORD is slow to anger and great in power." Imagine if God wasn't slow to anger. That "great in power" would be poured out on us unbearingly! But, alas, He is a merciful God, full of compassion and grace. His kindness endures forever.

So meditate a little while on these verses in Nahum. Picture the images described in these verses. The clouds are dust on God's feet. Look up in the sky sometime and see how numerous and how large the clouds are. What's dust on OUR feet? Dirt. Verse 5 says the mountains quake before Him and the hills melt. Are you feeling small yet?

This is where worship gets serious...when we realize we bow to a God that is amazingly huge. His power is phenomenal. But yet He knows each of us intimately and He loves us just the way we are. This is where facedown worship begins...

Host of Heaven- I stand in awe of You. Amen.

**For additional reading, check out Job 38-41.