Someone asked, "Have you seen Jesus lately?" We often see pictures of Jesus on the cross, and we permit that to be the last picture we have of him. Nothing wrong with that, but the question is "Have you seen Jesus lately?" For if you have, the vision of Revelation is the last portrait of our risen Lord.
The beloved disciple John was privileged to see a vision of Jesus as described in Revelation 1: 12-20. The conquering and reigning Jesus caused John to "fall at His feet as dead." Then the vision progressed in Revelation 4-5 of Jesus seated on the throne and all the angels crying day and night "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come."
This scene closes with "every creature in heaven and earth ... saying "Blessings and honor and glory and power Be to Him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, forever and ever!"
It seems to me when those on the earth who deeply loved Jesus (like John), all the angels in Heaven are worshipping His holiness; and every creature in Heaven, on earth, in the sea doing the same; that if we have seen Jesus enthroned, then our response would be to worship Him, as well.
Worship will not be hard.
Worship will not be a second thought.
Worship will not have to be "worked up."
Worship will be naturally supernatural.
And we will worship Him the way He wants to be worshipped.
I remember so well what Dr. Peter Lord always said, "It would be bad to spend our entire life baking God an apple pie because we thought He liked apple pies, only to get to Heaven to discover He neither likes apple pies nor never commanded us to bake Him one."
The point...it would be bad to spend our entire life thinking God wanted to be worshipped one way and to get to Heaven and He say, "I told you in the Bible how to worship Me and you did not."
May the fresh vision of Jesus transform your personal and public worship of Him now and forever.
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