The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in Zephaniah 1:2-3,
"'I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth,' declares the Lord. 'I will sweep away both men and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. The wicked will have only heaps of rubble when I cut off man from the face of the earth', declares the Lord."
Idolatry is a pervasive sin these days. Where we don't pull our Buck knives out and carve little statues we place on our mantles to worship, we nevertheless fashion a God who doesn't exist from our imaginations and worship it. Churches are full of people who worship a God other than the one true God who has revealed himself in the pages of Scripture. He has decided to reveal himself in the Scriptures and told us what he is like. This is the God to worship - not the one we think he ought to be.
God has told us he is both loving, kind and merciful, as well as judgmental and wrathful. In Jeremiah 9:24, "Let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight."
The writer of Hebrews says, "It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." Hebrews 10:31. Yes, God loves the world so much he sent his Son to die as a sacrifice to pay the penalty for our sins. Woe to the man who passes on God's offer through the gospel! As the Lord tells us later in Zephaniah, "The whole world will be consumed by the fire of my jealous anger." Zephaniah 3:8.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your thoughts of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We'd love to hear from you!
Trevor Fisk
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