November 2, 2023… Created To Worship God …

November 2, 2023… Created To Worship God …   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics from the group We Are Messengers singing … Images of God …  Poignantly singing of how all of us are made in the image of God and created by the Lord to worship.    

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Highlight Passage: … Acts 17:22 [NLT] … 

22 So Paul, standing before the council, addressed them as follows: “Men of Athens, I notice that you are very religious in every way, …   

…  Paull, preaching of the one true God, appeals to the gentile culture in Athens to show that we all worship something in this life.               

              

Highlight Passage (Context): … Acts 17:22-34 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK …  

… The Apostle Paul preaches to to the intellectual elite in Athens about the ONE true God. 

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 95:6 -7 [NLT] …USE THIS LINK …  

… Likely King Dave sings, calling all God’s people to bow down and worship the One true God. 

Reference Passage: …Psalms 100 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…God’s Psalmist, also most likely King David, sings of thanksgiving, worship, and praise being extended to one-and-only, … true, … God, Who created all we are and all we see     

Reference Passage: … John 4:23-24  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus speaks truth to the Samaritan women (and to us) that one day EVERYONE will worship The LORD, Who is the One True God.                 

Reference Passage: …Romans 12:1-2 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians that we must be willing to become living sacrifices, giving our all to worship and follow the One, true God.           

Reference Passage: … Revelation 4:9-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God reveals to John that all in heaven will give all glory and honor and praise to our God on His throne in glory, Who is worthy of all praise.      

                                                                              

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Sheridan Voysey … AT THIS LINK …   tells visiting the hill near Agora in Athens where the Apostle Paul reasoned with philosophers and the Greek intellectual elite, showing them that we all worship something; but that something -  or someone  - needs to be the God Who created us all to worship Him as The God Who created everything.        

But from today’s ODB entry and the Scriptures shared above, I’m directed (and prayerfully you) to the reality that God created all mankind with the desire to worship SOMETHING.  It’s really a spiritual hole in our hears that only God can fill.  This reality calls all of us to ask ourselves what or who are we worshipping.  I’m praying we all bow before The Lord, especially in this Thanksgiving season, and worship The LORD, casting away all our selfish or worldly idols, to become, as Paul wrote in Romans 12:1…  “living sacrifices” … to the One, TRUE, God.  

   

My THANKFULNESS:.. Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for helping me fill the “Love Hole” in my hear that You created to draw me to worship You with my life.                                     

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me, … to praise You, Lord,  for created us to worship You.  … Amen 

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