During
the time of response to God’s Word today we were led in a song that took its text
from Revelation 5:12. As I was singing and thinking about that chapter of
Scripture, I had some thoughts.
Heavenly
worship is described in Revelation 4:1-11.
How
does John, the earthly and inspired observer of heaven’s worship, react to
heaven’s worship?
“I began to weep greatly because no one
was found worthy”
(5:4).
Without
the Lamb, the best worship – even heaven’s worship – is grievous to the exiled
earthling.
When
the “Lamb standing, as if slain,”
divine possessor of the Spirit of God, reveals Himself to be Fulfiller of God’s
Word, heaven and earth and all creation worship
and
worship
and
worship
and
worship.
It
is not a true or saving faith unless Jesus is the center of it.
Preaching,
teaching, studying the Bible is not biblical unless it leads you to Jesus
(because the Book is about Him).
To
John, even heaven’s worship wasn’t worship until the Lamb was revealed to be
its center.
I
need more of John’s passionate focus on Jesus in my life.
