Worship

The Book of Job is revealing some amazing things. I am still in Chapter 1 and have been awestruck. Job has been tested; he has lost everything, he lost his wealth, his herds, his servants and even his children. So how did he react?
Job 1:20

20Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped.

He worshiped! Simply amazing…concerning this passage David Atkinson writes; “Even in all this Job sees the hand of God. Amazingly, and significantly, his first instinct is to react Godwards – in worship. How few of us find that worship is our first reaction even at the best of times. But here is a man who is coping with a multiple bereavement. He has been afflicted with loss after loss. His sorrow is real and very great. How difficult it is to worship at such a time! Yet worship is Job’s reaction.”

So hard, but what lesson for us all! A lesson that no matter what we should rejoice, we should worship, we should love God because he is God! Amen.

That brings to mind Psalm 95:1-7;

1 Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.

3 For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods.

4 In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.

5 The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

6 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;

7 for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.

Grace and Peace!