Text:
Isaiah 6:1-6
Thought for today:
Today, let us prepare for corporate worship tommorrow. We come needy, we come expecting to see God, focus on his Son in the elements of the Lord's Table and hear from the Holy Spirit in the Word; we come together tommorrow. The fasting you've been practicing as a spiritual discipline this month has been like a "solo" but tommorrow we are a choir. Our worship should be more passionate tommorrow at this end of this, our August fast than when we first began.
Passionate worship necessitates a correct view of God and a subsequently correct view of one's self. This is seen in Isaiah 6 as he sees God "High and lifted up" and responds "Woe is me . . . I have unclean lips". When I was in high school my youth pastor told me, "you cannot see God for who he really is and fail to see yourself for who you really are". Worship and humility are inseparable. As God is revealed tommorrow we should feel needy and broken, this is healthy. However, in him we should see a vision of our redemption and be healed. These are the dynamics of worship, the slow building verse of our brokeness and the crescendo of the chorus of our salvation.
Song:
"Carried to the Table" by Leeland
See you tommorrow, Caleb Widmer
