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“We Bow Down”
“… he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of Lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen” 1 Timothy 6:15-16. Who do you lift up? We live in a very narcissistic culture that is all about promoting self. As products of our culture, it’s hard as Christians to not reflect what we see around us. Yet, throughout scripture, we see many praising God for being the awesome God He is. In the acronym about prayer, ACTS, the A stands for adoration. This is to remind us that our very lives are to be God-centered. Is this because we serve a narcissistic God who demands to be praised, as Christianity’s skeptics believe? No, Paul, speaking to the pagans in Athens, declared that God didn’t need anything from us (Acts 17:25). Rather, lifting up God helps us from slipping into narcissism so that it is truly the God who “gives to all mankind life and breath and everything” we worship and not ourselves. We need to worship a God who is bigger than ourselves so that we can become true worshippers in spirit and in truth. Who do you promote in your worship and life?
