The title for this blog post was derived
from a verse in the KJV version in Revelation 4:11. "Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power:
for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were
created."
Looking at this verse in isolation we
find someone, or, a number of people ascribing praise and exaltation to the
Lord. The worthiness of this Majestic, Divine Being is brought before us; Thou art worthy, O Lord...to receive
glory, and honour and power..."
Verse 11
is the last verse in Revelation chapter 4. It is a short chapter
focusing on the throne of God and the One sitting on this throne. We also see
four living creatures about the throne. Let's read verses 8-10 in the NKJV.
Revelation 4:8-10,
"(8) The four living creatures, each
having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day
or night, saying: 'Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is
to come! (9) Whenever the living creatures
give glory and honour and thanks to him who sits on the throne, who lives
forever and ever, (10) the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on
the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns
before the throne..."
We see the holiness of God, the almighty
power of God and His eternal presence.
Who is this Majestic, Divine Being? Revelation
5:6 gives us the answer. "And I
looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living
creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been
slain..."
It is the Lord Jesus Christ - the Lamb
of God; still showing the marks of Calvary! He is the One receiving the "glory, honour and power." But
verse 11 gives us yet another powerful reason. "...Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created." (KJV).
All things, all created beings, are and
were created by God; according to His divine will and according to His holy
desires for His own pleasure. Do we give God pleasure in our daily lives?
How would we feel if we made something
to have pleasure in, and it failed to do that? Would we cast it aside? Or would
we try and rectify the problem? There is an old saying, 'What can't be mended
must be ended!'
Genesis 1:31
tells us, "Then God saw everything
He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were
the sixth day." However when we get to Genesis 6:7 we read
these words, "So the Lord said, 'I
will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and
beast, creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made
them."
What had happened to change God's mind?
When Adam and Eve sinned and disobeyed God they brought sin into God's
creation. From that time all mankind was cursed with a sinful nature passed
down from Adam and Eve. By the time we get to Genesis chapter 6 we find
that only one man - Noah, "...found
grace in the eyes of the Lord." (Verse 8). The result of their sins was death in a
universal, worldwide flood which rose above all the mountains. Only Noah and
his family in the ark were saved. God continued the human race via Noah and his
family.
God has not abandoned mankind. He sent
His Son to rectify the situation. Galatians 4:4,5 states, "(4) But when the fullness of the time
had come, God sent fort His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, (5) to
redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as
sons."
The answer is Jesus Christ - the
Messiah, the Son of Man, the Son of God, God the Son.
God has pleasure today in redeemed men,
women and children! John 3:16, " For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."
Do you believe in the Son - Jesus Christ
the Lord? Have you received Him as your Lord and Saviour? Then, and only then,
can you give pleasure to God.
Jon Peasey
Biblical Perspectives blog www.jon-peasey.blogspot.com
Ebooks author page https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/JRPeasey
[All
Scriptures quoted are from the New King James version; unless otherwise noted.
Word enclosed in [ ] are inserted
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