A View from Above… The Throne Room View!
Psalm 73:3 For I was envious of the arrogant as I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
…there are no pains in their death,
…their body is fat.
…they are not in trouble as other men,
…nor are they plagued like mankind.
…pride is their necklace;
…garment of violence covers them
…their eye bulges from fatness;
…the imaginations of their heart run riot.
…they mock and wickedly speak of oppression;
…they speak from on high.
…they have set their mouth against the heavens,
…their tongue parades through the earth.
Psalm 73:13-14 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and washed my hands in innocence; for I have been stricken all day long and chastened every morning.
Have you done this too? Compared your life to those around you and wished you could be like them?
Have you had Pity Parties over what God expects of you and what He seems to ignore from others?
Have you viewed life from Ground Level and decided, “It’s NOT fair!!”, meaning of course that God’s not being fair… to you!
Psalm 73:16 When I pondered to understand this,
It was troublesome in my sight.
Until you use God’s elevator of prayer…
Psalm 73:17 I came into the sanctuary of God; Then I perceived their end.
The Pity Party ends when you enter God’s Throne Room!
Job 38:1-3 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? “Now gird up your loins like a man, and I will ask you, and you instruct Me!
Put on your big boy/girl pants and stand before our Holy God.
You shall know the truth…
Psalm 73:21-24 When my heart was embittered and I was pierced within, then I was senseless and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.
It’s all about your VIEWpoint, and your VIEWpoint is all about your faith.
What do you believe about God? What do you believe about life? What do you believe about you?
Do you believe that God SEES and is present in this world and in the world to come? Or do you believe like those the psalmist envied, “How does God know? And is there knowledge with the Most High?” (our version of “What He doesn’t know won’t hurt Him)
Is God real? Or is He just a figment of your imagination? And if He is REAL, is He active?
Do your jealous eyes judge Him as uncaring when you do not get what you demand. Do you KNOW what His will is for you and for all of His creation?
With your words you claim to know and love God, but is your faithfulness conditional on how happy, healthy and wise He makes you (or lets you be)?
We have to decide…
Either God is good all the time and all the time He is good, or He is subject to man’s judgements/opinions and is no god at all.
We sometimes think that we are called to go to the Throne Room in order to give God our laundry list of wants, needs or demands. We have been taught to say all the right words and then expect the RIGHT answers. Not all of us have the audacity to claim God gave the wrong answer BUT we go so far as to say we just haven’t gotten the right code words and or actions to unlock His miracles.
I’ll admit it… I wanted to LEARN TO PRAY in order to GET THE RIGHT ANSWER. My eyes were more interested in comparing the results among all of us “prayer warriors” than SEEING God and JOYFULLY RECEIVING His answer!
One of the miracles (and the best one in my opinion) of coming into God’s Throne Room, is the laser surgery that God has performed on the eyes of my heart!
When I enter in, I no longer look at anything other than the face of my God. I look FULL in His wonderful face…
I see THE TRUTH… I see HIM!
Psalm 73:21-24 When my heart was embittered
And I was pierced within, then I was senseless and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You. Nevertheless I am continually with You; You have taken hold of my right hand. With Your counsel You will guide me, and afterward receive me to glory.
I once was (like a beast before You) lost… but now… (You have taken hold of my right hand) am found…
We can determine that this world is all there is and therefore we will make it all it can be… my kingdom come… But what if this world isn’t all there is?
This world, as we know it, will cease to exist and God’s Kingdom will descend. God controls eternity (the world to come)… what happens when we don’t know (or believe in) the Eternity Creator/Contoller?
I came into the sanctuary of God; Then I perceived their end.
…Surely You set them in slippery places;
…You cast them down to destruction.
…they are destroyed in a moment!
…They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!
Psalm 73:27 For, behold, those who are far from You will perish;
Does that mean God doesn’t love those who do not know Him?
2 Peter 3:9 the Lord is… patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
But we must freely come… choosing to believe God IS and He is Worthy of all that we have to give.
Will I give myself?
“choose for yourselves today whom you will serve” (Joshua 24:15)
In the sanctuary of God, I see God.
I see… the nearness of God is my good; (Psalm 73:28) and because I see clearly… I have made the Lord God my refuge.
The View From Above…
Isaiah 55:8-9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts…
A View From Above… The ROOM With a view…
The Throne Room View…
It’s ALL about God…
When you SEE the truth, you will be changed… the truth will make you free. (John 8:32)
No more Pity Parties for me! I choose WIN/WIN… God is good all the time and all the time God is good!
I choose to avoid all the ground clutter I am easily distracted by.
I choose the View from Above.
I choose the Throne Room View.
How about you?
**All Scripture quoted comes from the “Bible Gateway” app and is the NASB version of the Bible