Deacon's Diary

Deacon's Diary for Sunday-September, 21st

deaconlwg | October 05, 2008 14:49

Deacon's Diary is a weekly feature that appears on the back side of the bulletin at the First Baptist Church of Avalon, Texas.

Perfectly centered.

Throughout most of our recorded history man believed that the planet Earth was the center of the universe. Without the benefit of telescopes and all the tools and equipment that scientist have today it is not hard to figure out why they thought this to be the case.


Every day man saw the sun come up in the east and then watched   it travel across the day time sky only to set in west. It had all the appearances of making a circle around them. Much like the moon looks to all of us Earth bound people as it travels around the planet.


As the scientist of the 17th century made advances in mathematics, and with the invention of the first telescope, this geocentric theory of an Earth centered universe started to breakdown and fall apart. But even as the evidence poured in, it was not easy for man to let go there long believed idea that our planet must be in the center.


Some of the first people that tried to make the case that the Earth did indeed revolve around the sun were severely punished. Galileo was put under house arrest until he died. Others were executed. Proof that it's in our nature to believe that we must be the center.


This 'man-centered' way of thinking is never as far 'off-center'    as it is when it comes to worship. When our prayers and our meditations start to become all about us, we have missed the point. If we get to a place where we worship God just to see what He will do for us, we have missed the true purpose of worship all together.


With this in mind, let us let go of any man-centered notions when it comes to the worship of our Lord. Our worship should never revolve around us, but it should forever and always revolve around the Son.

 

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