Lift your eyes

Sunday February 5th Isaiah 40: 26 Lift up your eyes and see. Who has made these stars? It is the One Who leads them out by number. He calls them all by name. Because of the greatness of His strength, and because He is strong in power, not one of them is missing. It is the Lord God who is the master hand behind all of creation. It is the Lord God who calls us all to come before the Lord and worship. We don’t all worship in the same way. We don’t all use the same name when we worship. Sometimes we are even silly enough to think that our way of understanding God and our way of worshiping God is right and everyone else, or at some of them, are wrong. That is like one of your children telling you that you must love some of your children and are not allowed to love some of your other children. God must just smile and wonder when we will all grow up and understand that God loves all the children of God. When we look at creation through our eyes, we see only that which surrounds our small limited view, and sometimes not even all of that. When we look at creation through a God’s eye view, it is quite a different picture. It is a picture of all of creation that God created and called good. It is a picture of all people created in the image of God being called Good by the God who created them. Our calling is to think globally or perhaps even cosmically, and act locally. One way is to introduce more global music in your worship. Today on this Super bowl Sunday, many will gather in the living rooms and cheer on their team. There may even be super bowl parties where some cheer and back one team and others at the same party cheer the other team. When it comes time to dig into the chips and dip and hot wings, we all gather around the same table. Can’t we do the same in our faith.