If you or I were to receive an invitation from Buckingham Palace to have a private audience with the king of England, you could be sure we would be instructed on the proper etiquette we would need to display as we approached the king. I am guessing that for some of you, such an invitation would not be that big a deal. But given America’s infatuation with the British monarchy, for many of you it would be an experience of a lifetime.
For those of us who have chosen to follow Jesus, we have a far greater privilege … That of approaching a king, not of some earthly kingdom, but the King of all kings, Jesus Christ. Yet too many of us, myself
included, don’t give much thought as to how we are to approach him. Tom Stallter in his excellent book, The Gap Between God and Christianity, makes it clear how we are to approach our God. Please take a moment to read what Stallter has to say and take them to heart the next time you approach our King in worship and prayer.
“We must approach him with the all-embracing humility that we do not know all there is to know about him and how he may work in our world and other people’s lives. We must, instead, approach him with overwhelming gratefulness for what he has given us in his Word. We must retain a humble heart and mind allowing him to act in ways that are his own, realizing there is mystery in what we do not know.”
Together let’s take his words to heart, knowing God is God and we are not!
Thanks for stopping by,
PJ
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