Ascribe Greatness to Our God

Acts of Worship
Awe of God

Make a Joyful Noise

Deuteronomy 32:1-7  The Message

The Song

32 ^1-5 Listen, Heavens, I have something to tell you.
    Attention, Earth, I’ve got a mouth full of words.
    My teaching, let it fall like a gentle rain,
        my words arrive like morning dew,
    Like a sprinkling rain on new grass,
        like spring showers on the garden.
    For it’s God’s Name I’m preaching—
        respond to the greatness of our God!
    The Rock: His works are perfect,
        and the way he works is fair and just;
    A God you can depend upon, no exceptions,
        a straight-arrow God.
    His messed-up, mixed-up children, his non-children,
        throw mud at him but none of it sticks.

^6-7 Don’t you realize it is God you are treating like this?
        This is crazy; don’t you have any sense of reverence?
    Isn’t this your father who created you,
        who made you and gave you a place on Earth?
    Read up on what happened before you were born;
        dig into the past, understand your roots.
    Ask your parents what it was like before you were born;
        ask the old-ones, they’ll tell you a thing or two.

For Reflection
It is not necessary to scream hell fire and damnation to bring new believers into the fold.  These days a good concept of Hell doesn't always do the trick.  God's words are gentle. Gods words are as brilliant as sun shimmering in the drops of a morning dew.  Gods words water the gardens of hope. God is ever lasting.  Ask your parents.  Ask the older folks in your midst.  They will tell stories of unexpected blessings.  Assign the blessings to God.

Pray

that you will see God's hand in your every day affairs.  Pray that you will conduct yourself as a child of God, confident in God's promise of the triumph of good over evil.