My Maker
RISE AND SHINE FOR JESUS! \O/
By Pam Iannello (my late mother)
A ministry of New Beginnings
Baptist Church
Psalm 95:6 (KJV)
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before
the Lord our maker.
It
occurred to me today as I read the above scripture verse that I rarely regard
the fact that God is my Maker. The dictionary defines maker as one that
makes, forms, shapes or molds. Ladies,
if we were more aware that everything about us originates with the Lord, there
would be clearer evidence of it in our form, our shape and the general molding
of our lives. Yes, God does rule all,
but how are we responding to His authority? Here the psalmist invites us to do
three things before the Lord our maker:
1)
worship
2)
bow
down
3)
kneel
Considering
those three aspects of the above verse, let me pose a few questions. Are you
faithful in attending worship services whenever the doors of your church are
open? Does your life exemplify reverence for the Lord? How closely is your
conduct molded after Christ? Would humility be one of your noted character
traits? Do you humbly wait for God’s commands? How regularly do you kneel in
prayer? Is your posture one of surrender – internally and externally? I believe these things would be obvious if we
submitted to the Lord as our Maker…
Psalm 100:3 (KJV)
Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is
he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the
sheep of his pasture.
As
our Creator, the Lord has the only right in and over us. We should constantly
devote our lives to Him. Are you living that way, dear lady? Perhaps you are
operating as if YOU were your own maker… Though the Bible tells us to, we
almost never acknowledge God in all our ways. As self-employed spiritual architects, we
make our own decisions and our own plans apart from seeking God’s face. We do
what we want, when we want, and how we want, for as long as we want. And if we
don’t want to, we won’t - and we usually don’t!
Ladies, we have forgotten something very essential – the Lord HE is God!
We don’t consider ourselves His
creatures, yet He IS our Maker! Are you
letting Him make you?? Or will He have to break you to do it? If we are
not thinking of the Lord as our Maker then we have to ask ourselves what He is
to us… And when we take a proper perspective toward the Lord then the shape of
our lives will prove it. Know it,
consider it and apply it – He is your Maker!
Job 36:3 (KJV)
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe
righteousness to my Maker.
Who
are you ascribing your righteousness to, dear lady? Some Christians actually
talk about their own purity as if they acquired it themselves. Listen, any
goodness we have is a result of GOD at work in us! If we remembered the Lord as
our Maker more often, we wouldn’t set up idols in our lives. There would be no
despising and no envying if believers better understood they had the same
Maker. The rich and the poor, the simple and the wise could all dwell together
in unity. All differences are extinguished as people stand before their Maker.
Isaiah 17:7 (KJV)
At that day shall a man look to his
Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel
In
closing, God would have us turn back to Him and to the humbling realization
that He is the One who should hold all authority over our lives. Being
unmindful of God is at the root of all our sin. Do your eyes truly have respect
to your Maker? If so, you would be found worshipping, bowing down and kneeling
before the Lord - and inviting others to do the same!
God Bless,
Pam
Isaiah
60:1&2
Copyright 2002 Pamela A. Iannello
Revised 2006
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