“I will
sacrifice a freewill offering to you;
I will praise your name, Lord, for it is
good.”
Psalm 54:6
It is a good
thing to worship the Lord!
When we worship
Him in Spirit and in Truth we bring Him honor.
Corrie Ten Boom
once said:
“There is no pit
so deep that He is not deeper still.”
How sweet the
worship to Him must be when offered by us from the deep pit.
When we are able
to worship Him even when we find ourselves in a place of great struggle or despair,
that worship becomes a sacrifice of praise and honor to Him.
I’ve heard a few
people shout “Thank you Jesus!” when they have won the lottery.
I have yet to
hear that same shout from someone exiting bankruptcy court.
I am not saying
the winners praise is not sincere.
But I am
recognizing how much more costly it likely is coming from that man or woman who
is in a place of great trouble.
You and I
usually find it effortless to praise and worship in the rarified air of the
mountaintop.
But in the
valley worship is often the last thing on our mind.
That is too bad.
Most of us would
agree that our valleys are the places of greater sacrifice when it comes to
worship.
Don’t
become limited by being only a “high-altitude” worshipper.
This week
worship Him from the mountaintop but also from the valley!
Worship Him from
the pinnacle and also the pit!
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