Seeing everything in life as an opportunity to worship God!
To bless the name of the Lord is to offer Him praise, to adore Him, to keep Him in the proper place of honor in our lives at all times!
That is what we see Job doing in Job 1:21 when he declares that even though the Lord gives and takes away, His name is to blessed no matter what.
Hebrews tells us to keep our eyes fixed upon Jesus, and to the level that we can do that, regardless of our situations, will be to the level that we will experience stability in our lives. Our worship needs to remain constant throughout the storms, throughout the pain, throughout everything we endure, because it reminds us that God is good and faithful no matter what we are going through.
Have you forgotten? The greatness of your mighty God hasn’t been diminished in any way. He is still the One that completely removed our sinfulness before Him! It is His name that still drives out the enemy. He is still; healing, loving, forgiving, reconciling, regenerating lives for His glory, freeing captives, opening the eyes of the blind, etc. You and I were given the blessing of all of these things if we know Jesus to be our personal Savior! In these truths I truly do stand in awesome wonder. How about you?
I know that we all face various seasons in our lives, some better and some worse, but I really believe that worshiping through the seasonal changes keeps us centered on the things that really matter and provides hope for us when we are hopeless! Hebrews 12:2 tells us to keep our eyes fixed upon Jesus, and the more we can do that by Blessing His Name regardless of our situations will be the level to which we will have stability in our lives.
Unfortunately, we live in a culture of abandonment. Way too many people are experiencing hurt and mistrust from parents who abandoned and mistreated them. This explains why so many have a hard time relying upon the Lord to be there through the hard times with them. I don’t know what pain you have had to endure throughout your life from being rejected, abandoned, and/or mistreated by someone you looked to and trusted, but I want you to know that the God of the Bible – the One true God – WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU OR ABANDON YOU (see Heb 13:5, John 14:8, Deut 31:6,8, Isa 43:2,5(a))! He will never run when things get hard. He will never reject your calls for help! He is always faithful to those who look to Him for deliverance. Do not let your experience with fallen humanity define your experience with a perfect Father! He loves you. No, wait, listen…..GOD LOVES YOU CHILD! Stand firm in that love, please!
So, I am not sure if there is an area of your life right now that you have not surrendered to the Lordship of Jesus, but I would like to invite you, even exhort you, to allow Jesus full and complete access and control of that area right now. Commit to the process of trusting Him with that area of your life, by faith, and looking to Him to rescue you from the unnecessary stress and frustration you will have to endure when you take it into your own hands.