Always the one in control. Always the One Who blesses. But I
cannot take His name in vain and be in synch with Him (Exodus 20:2; Leviticus 19:12; Leviticus 22:32;
Deuteronomy 5:11). I cannot say that I truly worship Him when I decide to do
things my way, to put my slant on the bible, to cut the things out of the bible
that make me hurt, to emphasize that which would not hurt at the very least and
would allow me to fulfill my need for expression at its very best. On the other
hand I cannot truly say that God is totally in this for the discipline He can
render on me. I cannot hit my self over the head with a board or wear sack
cloth and ashes because of my lot in life. The humility expressed in the book
of Job is so dear and so ancient, that I come to see that it is only realizing
that whether I am rich or have all that taken from me God is God and I don’t
know His ways. (Job 9:16,17,34,35; Job 13:7-9,25-27; Job 15:13,25,26) When I
act as though how I worship is dependant upon that service doing something for
me, that service thrilling me, when I act and look to worship to see what I can
get out of it, I am struck with “me”-itis, and express that selfishness in it’s
most vainest and vilest of terms. I am to the point that I have chosen not to
serve God with the purest of intentions but to serve God so that He may serve
me. (2 Samuel 12:14; 2 Kings 19:22; 2 Chronicles 32:19). I have in effect gone
against God.
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