The other night I was in a very formal worship service. There was incense, bells, organs, guitars, chanting, formal prayers, genuflecting, and even spontaneous prayers from people all around me. It was quite an experience.
The older couple next to me, however, were quite distracting indeed. Every time the Lord’s Name was mentioned, they bobbed downward in a robotic fashion and then up again - not unlike those little plastic yellow birds that bob back and forth in the back of late model Buicks. I tried to block them out but the Name of Jesus is said a LOT in the service and soon I resigned myself to the dismal fact: I was predestined to be humiliated by the Jesus Bobbers next to me.
Then came the verse in my heart: “At the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth.” (Philippians 2:10, Italics Mine) With that as my new plumb-line their bobbing became completely normal, even justified. In fact, by the end of the service we had the whole pew bobbing back and forth. We were all just practicing for that great and glorious Day!
Guess it’s not too early to start now.
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