A Thought

I may have written this before - don't know - but will do so again as it is on my mind.

I find it interesting that so many non-Christians find the idea of God desiring and delighting in the praise of people abhorrent...as though he is an ego-maniac! Here is a homespun response:

A poor family lives on a humble city street. One day there is a knock at the door and in comes --------- --------, the greatest violinist in the world. He says, "I would love to play my violin for you. Listen."...And he plays and plays in the beauty of perfection....At the end of the concert, his small audience can't thank him enough for his graciousness and kindness, praise his playing enough, adequately express the honor of having him give this irreplaceable gift to them. A perfectly meet and proper response....Anything else would be churlish and contemptible...Of course, the gift God gives to us is not only this world and our life in it, but Himself, in Christ....But, as Paul Harvey always said, and Pastor Wayne often quotes: You know "the rest of the story"...Vicious, wicked, ungrateful human nature!...Men may be praised, and praised to the utmost. God may not!