Call to Worship -- February 4, 2007

Call To Worship: Revelation 4:11 >> "You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created."

The earth is full of the glory of the Lord. Only the blind do not see this. His glory is there because He created it -- because on it we see the fingerprints of the one who formed it. That is why when we do see, we are mystified, we are struck with the beauty of the stars and the trees, and the hills and rivers…
By God’s will, by His constant action and His hand of mercy, all His works exist from moment to moment.
But the glory of the Lord also includes what creation eventually will be. When God’s glory becomes more fully realized at a particular time and place, we get a hint of what His plans are for His creation, for His people. What will that new creation look like? God makes His glory more clearly visible in a bush; and it burns and is not consumed. His glory fills a cloud; and flames and lightening come from it. John sees the ascended and glorious body of Jesus in heaven -- eyes like a flame of fire, feet like brass, refined in a furnace, a voice as the sound of many waters. He sees what Jesus is, and what we will be Let us come and worship.