Friday November 15th 2013
No, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless thousands of angels in a joyful gathering. You have come to the assembly of God's firstborn children, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God himself, who is the judge over all things. You have come to the spirits of the righteous ones in heaven who have now been made perfect. You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks of forgiveness instead of crying out for vengeance like the blood of Abel. Be careful that you do not refuse to listen to the One who is speaking. For if the people of Israel did not escape when they refused to listen to Moses, the earthly messenger, we will certainly not escape if we reject the One who speaks to us from heaven! When God spoke from Mount Sinai his voice shook the earth, but now he makes another promise: "Once again I will shake not only the earth but the heavens also." This means that all of creation will be shaken and removed, so that only unshakable things will remain. Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe. For our God is a devouring fire. (Hebrews 12:22-29 NLT)
Today we are given a look into a worship service. At first, I thought that we were taking a glimpse into a worship service in the future (heavenly Jerusalem, countless angels, etc...), but as I read it again, I realized the tense. The tense is present, "you HAVE come...!" No, we are being given a picture of worship that we all take part in every week, in fact all the time. A worship that takes place in both the physical realm and the heavenly realm at the same time. God is right there in front of us, and so we worship Him alone. God is...here, right now, present, waiting for our worship. He may not be physically visible to us, but His fingerprints are everywhere. There have been times that I have struggled with this idea. Do you ever struggle with worshipping something unseen? If you do, how do you get past that roadblock and worship the Living God?
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