God of the Beautiful

"You make everything glorious - so what does that make me?" Everything Glorious by David Crowder Band

God is the creator of everything - from the sunset to the night sky. He arranged the stars so that we could see constellations, and he set up the color spectrum so that when we look to the west around 6-7 PM we'd see amazing colors. Anytime you've looked at anyone or anything and was blown away by the beauty, you have God to thank - either directly or indirectly.

However, if you read Ecclesiastes 3, it says that "God makes everything beautiful"[emphasis mine] - note the word 'everything'. That doesn't mean everything but this one thing or this one situation. And it certainly doesn't mean everyone but you. It includes you - whether or not you believe it, whether or not the world sees it, you are beautiful. It also means that your life, your circumstances, even your mistakes are made beautiful by God.

That is one of the main ideas that keeps me going. All the stuff I've gone through in life, all the pain and all the times I've failed, God can (and will) take it ALL and make it beautiful. 50 years down the road, I'm going to be able to look back at my first 18 years of existence, and marvel at what God's done with my life. And He can do the same for you.

Sidebar: God's presence during worship

  "We've come to be with You, come to bring You our attention, our affection." - Aaron Gillespie, We Were Made For You

  How often do we walk into church with the idea that we came to be with God? Not just to worship, not just to learn, but just to be WITH Him? I'll go ahead and be honest: I don't know if that was ever my motivation. Jesus says that when we meet to worship, He is with us. How often do we consider that? I mean sure, it’s a nice thing when the worship leader says that God is with us or God’s presence is in the building; but just the thought of the almighty GOD in the room, actually there, boggles my mind.

  I don’t know what else to really say on this subject – when you walk into your church on a Sunday morning, know that God is there. The entire time. When you’re standing there, singing to God, God is there listening to you worship Him. For some of us – myself included – that may mean we need to re-evaluate how we worship. For others, it may just be an awesome reminder of how personal our God really is.