It will be good for your soul

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Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Selfcare”

Our Bible verse for today: “All the angels stood around the throne, and along with the elders and the four living creatures they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God, saying, Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen.” Revelation 7:11-12 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “It will be good for your soul”

I love the scene John the Revelator describes for us in Revelation 7:11-12 – the angels of God before the throne of God worshiping God. John had entered a deep state of worship in his own mind and heart there on the island of Patmos, and he got to witness and experience a tremendous worshipful scene taking place in heaven.

Earlier in that same passage, in Revelation 7:9-10, he tells us that along with the angels there was a vast multitude of people, “After this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, which no one could number, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!” And then, beginning in verse 11, the angels sang their song.

This was worship. Deep worship. It’s representative of the kind of worship we should all desire to sink into when we gather with the saints of God in our local churches each Sunday. And if you do – if you do experience worship at a deep heart-moving level, your soul will be touched. But you must want it. You have to seek it. You must come to the corporate worship experience with a heart that yearns to encounter the Living God of the Universe.

Let me leave you this morning with that wonderful insight from Pastor Chuck Swindoll which I shared with you in a previous devotional and which comes from his book “Intimacy with the Almighty.”

“Deep things are intriguing. Deep jungles. Deep water. Deep caves and canyons. Deep thoughts and conversations. There is nothing like depth to make us dissatisfied with superficial, shallow things. Once we have delved below the surface and had a taste of the marvels and mysteries of the deep, we realize the value of taking the time and going to the trouble of plumbing those depths. This is especially true in the spiritual realm. God invites us to go deeper rather to be content with surface matters.”

Think about this. Pray about it. Ask God to make this the desire of your heart as you approach your time of worship with your brothers and sister in Christ. It will be good for your soul.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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