Psalm 95:6
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our
maker.
It occurred to me today as I read the above scripture verse that I rarely
regard the fact that God is my Maker. The dictionary defines maker as
one that makes, forms, shapes or molds. Ladies, if you and I were more
aware that everything about us originates with the Lord, there would be
clearer evidence of it in our form, our shape and the general molding
of our lives. Yes, God does rule all, but how are we responding to His
authority? Here the psalmist invites us to do three things before the
Lord our maker:
1) worship
2) bow down
3) kneel
Are you faithful in attending worship services whenever the doors of your
church are open? Does your life exemplify reverence for the Lord? How
closely is your conduct molded after Christ? Would humility be one of
your noted character traits? Do you bow down and wait for God's commands?
How regularly do you kneel in prayer? Is your posture one of surrender?
I believe these things would be obvious if we submitted to the Lord as
our Maker…
Psalm 100:3
Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we
ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
As our Creator, the Lord has the only right in and over us. We should
constantly devote our lives to Him. Are you living that way, dear lady?
Perhaps you are operating as if YOU were your own maker… Though the Bible
tells us to, we almost never acknowledge God in all our ways. As self-employed
spiritual architects, we make our own decisions and our own plans apart
from seeking God's face. We do what we want, when we want, and how we
want, for as long as we want. And if we don't want to, we won't - and
we usually don't! Ladies, we have forgotten something very essential -
the Lord HE is God! We don't consider ourselves His creatures, yet He
IS our Maker! Are you letting Him make you?? Or will He have to break
you to do it? If you and I are not thinking of the Lord as our Maker then
we have to ask ourselves what He is to us… When we take a proper perspective
toward the Lord then the shape of our lives will prove it. Know it, consider
it and apply it - He is your Maker!
Job 36:3
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to
my Maker.
Who are you ascribing your righteousness to, dear lady? Some Christians
actually talk about their own purity as if they acquired it themselves…
Any goodness we have is a result of GOD at work in us! If we remembered
the Lord as our Maker more often, we wouldn't set up idols in our lives.
There would be no despising and no envying if believers better understood
they had the same Maker. The rich and the poor, the simple and the wise
could all dwell together in unity. All differences are extinguished as
people stand before their Maker.
Isaiah 17:7
At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect
to the Holy One of Israel.
In closing, God would have us turn back to Him and to the understanding
that He is the One who should hold all authority over our lives. Being
unmindful of God is at the root of all our sin. Do your eyes truly have
respect to your Maker? If so, you would be found worshipping, bowing down
and kneeling before Him - and inviting others to do the same!
God Bless,
Pam
Isaiah 60:1&2
Copyright 2002 Pamela A. Iannello
