Worship as the First Option


Job 1:20-21
At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship and said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised."

Job is writing this on the heels of learning that everything he held dear had been taken away from him.

I get tearing his robe and shaving his head, those are signs of grief; but bowing down in worship?

I don’t know about you, but the first thing that pops into my head when I get bad news is not worshipping God. Turning to Him in prayer, yes, but not worship.

And maybe that is the problem; my first reaction is not worship.
 
If I say the God is my King and my Lord and that I “trust” in Him, why shouldn’t it be worship? Why shouldn’t my first reaction be “God, you’ve got this under control so I am going to worship you”?

To make all of this more poignant we have to understand the concept of progressive revelation in the Bible. Job did not have our concept of rewards in the life to come. For Job all you had was this life and if you were going to be blessed by God it had to happen in this life. To have everything taken from him should have been a sign to him that God was displeased with him. That is in fact how those around him saw his plight.

Job, on the other hand, never deviates from his trust in the Lord and bows down in worship. In his estimation everything he had, had come from God because it pleased God to give it to Him. If God now all of a sudden decided to take it all away, who was he to complain? God is still God so may His name be praised.

There is so much I still need to learn about worship. Is He really Lord of my life?
 
If He is, then regardless of the circumstances my first reaction to everything is to worship Him, because He is God and worthy of my praise.

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