Freedom is Good News Part 129

I was reading an article a short time ago on the subject of “balance”.  The author was contemplating this busy world in which we live and the struggle we encounter as we strive to deal with balancing the many activities in our lives: family, job, exercise, sleep, entertainment and diet. 

Did I leave anything out?  Well, yes, I probably did and I’m sure you might be able to add to this list.  The question that must be asked here is, where does God fit into our busy schedules?  Do we just figure that God has to fit into a one hour slot when we gather together with others to sing a few songs and listen to a message?  Is that all that God deserves?

This article I was reading made this statement, “Your effort to balance life is a waste of time, like striving after the wind.  Don’t even try.”  And then the author quoted this scripture, “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”  (Matthew 6:33)

You see, God does not deserve the leftovers of our lives.  The God that we should be serving is the one who is the Creator of all the universe.  He is the God that confronted Job and asked where he was when God “laid the foundations of the earth” and the same God who commissioned Isaiah to cry out to His people concerning their sins.  He is the one who sent His only begotten Son to die an extremely torturous death so that we might have life.  Do we really understand who this God is?

What was it Isaiah said when he realized that the majesty of God was in front of him?  What was it that he spoke when the angels that accompanied God cried out, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of His glory.” (Is. 6:3)  Isaiah cried out, “Woe is me!  I am ruined!  For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.” (Is. 6:5)  Did Isaiah realize something at that point?  Did his whole life change at that moment?  You bet it did!  As much as his small human mind could comprehend what he was experiencing at that moment, his whole life took a great pivot Godward!!

Who is this God?  Let us read the words of King David, the man after God’s own heart,

“Praise to you, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, from everlasting to everlasting.  Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.  Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hands are power and might to give strength to all.  And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.” (1 Chronicles 29:10-13)

Read that again – slowly!  These are true words of praise and honor to the only living God.