Precisely, that's my question. What do you do when faced with the King? king is a male sovereign or monarch; a man who holds by life tenure, and usually by hereditary right, the chief authority over a country and people. I'm sure many of us would, and highly likely would be in awe of respect should the king of the country be in our midst. Wouldn't we?
Just a reminder to us, Christians. We go to church every Sunday presented with the opportunity to praise and worship the King of Kings, Lord of Lords...and sadly because it is presented so easily to us, at times we take it for granted. It was pretty much a blind spot to me until prayer meeting about few hours ago that made me realized:
1. We don't take opportunity of every chance we have in the presence of God
As mentioned, that it comes to us so easily, we don't realize the significance in it, or maybe we do realize but we don't appreciate it as much as we should. Some people in other countries, have to fight and hide away to worship God. Thus, every minute is greeted with a sense of gratitude and thankfulness. Things that come easily aren't always valued, cause we assume that it will always be there. We don't realize its importance to us till we lose it.
2. We still cannot comprehend the face of worshipping someone not visible
God is omnipresent. He is everywhere. That's why He's not seen. God did come to this world in the form of a man, 2000+ years ago, but then when He departed He left behind the Holy Spirit. For in Hebrews 11:6 - But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Faith is believing without seeing, and unfortunately many of us fail to see beyond the need for a physical being in our midst. We don't need the physical that's why we don't believe it. Well, we wait at the bus-stop without seeing the bus, but we know the bus will come. Isn't it the same thing?
3. We put our expectations on God.
God still heals and perform miracles today. Whether we believe it or not. It still does happen. For God to move, we need people to set the "right" platform for God to work. Someone once told me, that in the scenario of praise and worship, God is the spectator and we are His performers rather than the other way around. I mentioned before that God's timing is always perfect. If He shows up earlier than we thought, we are not ready. If He shows up later than us, we were just simply early. We don't see it, we always miss it. Maybe we're just not ready for it. Sadly, but yeah.
We don't appreciate the things we have, until we lose them only we realize how much it meant to us.
