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I heard laughter, then sadness. Running my hand over the books, emotions seeped out. I kept walking, letting my fingers side over the covers, then one book caught my eye, it looked full to over flowing with happiness and pleasant thoughts. I took it off the shelf and let it fall open in my hands. Memories now replaced book shelves. I looked around, I was at a Christmas family gathering. Everyone one is smiling, laughing, and joyful, the type of family gathering that you would read about in a story book, but this was no fairy tale, no, this was reality in hindsight.

In thought I pondered..... how many of us actually put aside time to worship our Creator? How many of us even think about that? Am I a distraction for my family in this area? Could I be exemplifying this area in my life more? Or is that part of the intimacy between Jesus and His children? When am I ever prostrate on the floor in fear and awe of Him?

 

  Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.

And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.

But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.   





1 Samuel 5:2-4(ESV)

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”

Mark 3:11 (ESV)

 

When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him and said with a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me.”

Luke 8:28 ( ESV)

 

 Then Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord, worshiping the Lord.

2 Chronicles 20:18 (ESV)

 

Since when did I get 'old enough' to not give Jesus the praise and worship He deserves?

Jesus has given us a choice as humans to accept His life giving salvation or to reject it, He much prefers the former. When I accepted the gift of salvation at the age of seven, I didn't know the consequences. I didn't realize that sitting at Jesus' feet would give me strength and revive my soul. I didn't really know that sin grieves Jesus, that He weeps over it, that it breaks His heart.





 

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

 1 Corinthians 13:11 (ESV)

 

But now the fact that I'm not as innocent anymore and do know these things, requires active obedience to Jesus Christ and a willing and surrendered heart, fully devoted to Him for all my days. It also requires discipline, to make Jesus my first priority, to intentionally spend time with Him, and have Jesus as first in my life.

Grow ever closer to Jesus.