Gleanings for January 7

Our Life Hidden in God

Revelation 5: l3, 14: NLB: “Blessing and honor and glory and power belong to the one sitting on the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever.”

And the four living beings said, “Amen!” And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped God and the Lamb.”

Colossians 3: 3 NKJV: “For You died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”

Colossians 1: 27 NKJV: “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

I John 1: 7 NKJV: “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”

Our thoughts this week will continue to be centered on PRAYER and the different kinds of prayer that are given to us in the scripture, one type is WORSHIP. TRUE WORSHIP comes when our lives are completely enter-twined with God. This means we will want to choose to walk in HIS LIGHT; the kind of light that leads us to TRUTH. It also means that we must come to KNOW (not just head knowledge but TRUE HEART—relationship) with the ONE we worship.

Strongs’ Concordance gives this definition of WORSHIP: “To prostrate oneself, bow down, do obeisance, show reverence, do homage, worship, adore.” The verse in Revelation that we quoted above, records that the twenty-four elders were “worshiping” as they blessed the Lord and brought glory to the Lamb Who was slain before the foundation of the world.

We who are still on this earth have not yet come into that full understanding of WHO our God really is but as we continue to read THE WORD and ask the Holy Spirit to help us, our understanding of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit will keep on growing. I believe when we unite with other Christians and enter into true worship and praise, often the Presence of the Lord will become very evident—it is at those times a person may choose to “prostrate and bow down” before Him in worship and adoration.

The last verse we listed today encourages us to “walk in the light as HE IS IN THE LIGHT”; He, Jesus, is not only IN the light but HE IS the TRUE LIGHT WHO desires to bring unity and an atmosphere which will ignite a manifestation of God’s Presence among us. Jesus prayed for that unity:

John 17:20, 21: “I pray for those who will believe in Me through their (the disciples)word; that they all may BE ONE, as YOU Father are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be ONE IN US, that the world may believe that You sent ME.”

That prayer will also bring us:

THE JOY OF THE LORD (WHICH IS) OUR STRENGTH!!