To Reverence My God

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There’s nothing like being with a body of believers, throwing my hands to the heavens and praising my Creator. However, sometimes a child of God needs to speak to Him alone, in holy reverence. That’s what this song reminds me to do.

When I was young, I went to churches that taught written-out prayers to speak to God. We were expected to memorize these and say them over and over again in our alone time with Him. Some of them are beautiful blueprints of how one should address a holy God. But now and again I felt the need to throw in a little discourse of my own with the Big Guy. He is my Father, after all.

But was that right?

Later, I met Christians who told me Our God was an approachable God, and His Son, Jesus was “God with us.” We could have conversations with Him like a friend throughout the day, not only on bended knee with closed lids. I loved this idea, because now I could pray in my car on long commutes—not convenient while kneeling, and kinda dangerous with your eyes shut.

So, I ventured into this new relationship with God, relishing the Oneness I felt in all my travels. I wasn’t required to kneel. So I didn’t.

Hmmm.

I’m in a different place these days.

You see, those who taught me of a relatable God also taught me about the God of the Bible. They said I could know Him better by reading His Word. So I did. What did I find out? He is good, He is holy, He is worthy. He is beyond anything I could imagine Him to be. And He loves me.

I found that when the great ones in the Bible were faced with just an angel of the Lord, they were moved to the point of falling on their faces in this presence. The disciples trembled when Jesus quieted the wind and the waves, knowing Him to be more powerful than the storm. And yet, I resist to bow to this God who I treat as a friend.

No more!

He is holy. He is worthy. He is the Lamb of God. He created me, He provides for me and He even died for me. He deserves my reverence. He deserves my love.

He deserves my all.

I still don’t pray on my knees—lids shading my eyes from all other distractions—because I’m required to. I now do these things because I want to. I am in awe and my spirit aches to reverence Him. I am blessed to spend this time with my Creator every day.

Thank you Lord!

P.S. You’ll be relieved to know that though I spend my mornings in bodily reverence, my “conversations” in the car are still with opened eyes and feet to the pedals.




Connie is a 2012 Genesis semi-finalist for Women’s Fiction. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Winter 2012 WOW Flash Fiction Contest for her entry, Why Not to Kiss on a Park Bench (aka. Harold and Violet). Come visit her on one of her other blogs: Living the Body of Christ InfiniteCharacters.com

Eight Days of WHAT IF?

A Devotional 

.   Day one:

What If?

What if we thanked and praised the Lord for all our blessings and  blessed our enemies as the Bible says to do? What if we prayed for the Peace of Jerusalem and for the President of the United States and all in authority?

.  Day two:

What If? 

What if we not only prayed for the President of the United States and all in authority, we also prayed that they and their loved ones might be saved?

.   Day three:

What If?

What if we repented of all our sins? And what if we promised not to sin again and really meant it? 

.   Day four: 

What If?

What if we forgave others and prayed for their souls? 

.   Day five:

What If?

What if we read the Bible carefully, believed it, and truly tried to do the things God suggested we do via the Bible?  

.   Day six:

What If?

What if we became doers of the word and not hearers only?

.   Day seven:

What If?

What if every morning and every night we put on the whole armor of God? What if maybe we touched our waists and said something like, "I put on the Belt of Truth in the name of Jesus." What if we touched our chests and said, "I put on the Breastplate of Righteousness?" What if next we touched or pointed to our feet and said, "I put on the shoes that with take me to preach the Gospel of Peace? What if we held up a shield we cannot see with our eyes and said, "I take up the Shield of Faith," and then we touched our heads and said, "I put on the Helmet of Salvation?" And finally what if we pointed our forefingers and said, "I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God in the name of Jesus?" 

What if? What If? 

.   Day eight:

What if?

What if we did all the things we have discussed these eight days, and we did them every day? And what if God heard from Heaven and healed our land? 
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