Fall Down!

“O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.”  (Ps 95:6 AV)

I don’t think we appreciate the dynamic of God as Creator nearly as much as we should.  Rebellion, even among God’s people, is out of control.  What we think, how we feel, or what we desire is king.  It astounds me how many who profess God as their God and Christ as their Savior and LORD do not care what His word says.  It is even more astounding how many profess a faith in God yet hold Him on trial for everything they think is not Godlike.  There is no fear of God anymore.  There is little humility and gratitude.  God owes us.  That is the feeling today.  If our lives are not as we wish, then God is not fair.  If we see the world in turmoil and the innocent abused, it is God’s fault and not the fault of wicked mankind.  God is the Creator.  We exist by His wishes and power.  We have the ability to reason and verbalize our rebellion because God gives us the breath of life.  As Solomon states, “The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, [is] from the LORD.” (Pr 16:1 AV) We live and move and have our being, as Paul states, by the sovereign hand of God.  The least we could do is acknowledge His existence and right to all that He has created by bowing down in worship.

Those who walk with God in sincerity and truth look forward to the day when we fall down at the presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ.  Those who love the LORD cannot imagine any other scenario where we don’t fall down for all of eternity and never look up.  To fail to have that heart as we walk as pilgrims is confusing, convicting, and not desirable.  Those who fall down and worship are not perfect.  Not by any stretch of the imagination.  In fact, often just the opposite.  Remember those who washed the feet of Jesus?  Remember how the Pharisees failed to wash the feet of Jesus, and a lowly woman of questionable character wept, washing his feet with tears and anointing his feet with the best that she had?  It doesn’t take a sinless heart to worship.  Just a broken one.  Many who know of true worship are not stellar examples of Christlikeness.  The thing is, unlike the Pharisees, they know it.  It is one thing to live unbroken and unbroken.  It is quite another to live broken and broken.

David was by no means a perfect man.  He made many mistakes.  He occasioned the death of tens of thousands.  Poor choices and disobedience left a wake of hurt behind him.  Yet, he never forgot that God was his maker.  He never walked in pride.  He may not have been able to completely tame the flesh, but his heart was broken every time he failed.  This psalm is written to Israel.  The creation of which the writer speaks is the creation of Israel as a nation.  But God’s creative hand was not limited to a nation.  He created and creates all things.  You and I are here because our Creator made us.  He is all-powerful.  He is all-wise.  He sees everything, and no one or nothing can hinder His hand.  With a God who is infinite in attributes and actions, only a fool would not fall down and worship.  We may not understand all that He does.  In our limited ability to observe and understand, we may think God is not who He claims to be.  Regardless, He is still the Creator.  It doesn’t matter what we think or how we feel.  He is the Creator, and the first response to His existence is to fall down in humility and worship Him as such.