It has been good to ponder the nature of who God is in His many roles, and within this dynamic understanding of Him, how we can enter into His presence. I love the fact that God is not crowned and I think realizing this opens up another layer of who He really is. God is not crowned because there is no one above Him to crown Him, He is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. I love that about God, and in all His splendor and majesty, He offers Himself to us and comes running to us, like the father in the story of the prodigal son. Truly amazing!
I also liked thinking about the process of coming before God as just that, a process. So often I just dive right in, but after listening to Don Williams speak of coming to the King like a procession, it made me think twice about how I personally enter into worship and how I approach this great King. The flow of a worship set came to mind as I thought deeper about this procession. Starting with praise and adoration, we honor God as Holy and set apart before anything else. We lay before Him our hopes, dreams, desires, gifts and we surrender. We then move into more thankfulness for who He is and all He has done which very naturally can tend to highlight our failings, our sin and our desperate need for Him. After we’ve honored Him, bowed before Him, thanked Him and been aware of our own sin, we come full circle and praise Him who is Holy once again. I love thinking of the worship set as a procession and I think we have the opportunity to do that each time we come before Him.
