OzThoughts Tuesday. 1st December 2009

OzThoughts Tuesday. 1st December 2009

The first day of December already! It is also the first day of Summer in the Southern Hemisphere. It is also only 25 days to Christmas.

Christmas ! So many things to do! So many things to get! I have been reminded in recent days of Matt Redman’s song:

I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about you, it's all about you Jesus
I'm sorry lord for the thing I've made it
When it's all about you, it's all about you Jesus.
(Matt Redman)


I see the challenge to look to the real things of Christmas. To look to the reason Jesus came. The world needed a Saviour. Look to the unexpected way God sent his Son. Our worship is to welcome and praise him.

PRAYER:

Heavenly Father, thank you for Christmas and all it means to the relationship between you and me. Help me to grow in that relationship as I seek to know more of you. Help me to see and show Christmas is all about you, Jesus.
“I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made it, when it's all about you, all about you Jesus”. Amen.



The Heart of Worship
Author: Matt Redman

[Listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZgPPmtZgS4 ]

When the music fades,
All is stripped away, and I simply come
Longing just to bring
Something that's of worth
That will bless your heart

I'll bring you more than a song
For a song in itself is not what you have required.
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear;
You're looking into my heart.

I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about you
All about you Jesus.
I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made it
When it's all about you,
All about you Jesus.

King of endless worth
No one could express
How much you deserve.
Though I'm weak and poor
All I have is yours, every single breath.

I'll bring you more than a song
For a song in itself is not what you have required.
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear;
You're looking into my heart.
I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about you
All about you Jesus.
I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made it
When it's all about you,
All about you Jesus.

Colossians 1:15-20 (The Message)
15-18We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God's original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.
18-20He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.
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