Creation, nature is the go-to reminder

that Your greatness is unparalleled, 

Abba.

There is none like You.

You are singularly unique.

Glorious.

Wonderful!

Creation declares this

Regularly.

Boldly. 

Which is why

Creation forms the basis 

For so many a song.

So much praise.

It is why

It serves as a reminder

of WHO You are

In our downcast

Overwhelmed moments.

In our trying circumstances.

We need only to look OUT 

at Creation

And UP

At Your cross,

Jesus.

And we will see

Our troubles, our annoyances 

Will seem so small

When stacked next to

Your wonders.

Your grace and love.

When priorities need 

Rearranged.

When desires need 

Reconsidered. 

When frustrations need

New Perspective. 

LOOK UP.

LOOK OUT.

When we remove our eyes 

From our 3ft world.

We see

Its so more grand.

YOU are more grand

Than we ever began to know.

To grasp.

To see.

Our vision was too small.

Our perspective too narrow.

Our focus veiled. 

Frustration comes only

when we reduce our world

to self.

Instead of seeing You at its center.

The solution

to my annoyance, 

my anger

today

is to change that focus.

That perspective.

That vision.

Worship of You

changes that focus.

SO

Here I come to worship

Today.

Capture my heart once more.

Keep it

Today

For 

The cure for a heart

whose worship 

is misdirected 

is to elevate that heart’s worship

outside of itself

above itself

over its condensed world

BACK to the source

where it belongs

to the One and Only

the True and Mighty

to You

Abba.

You.

The cure for a heart

drudging through the muck

of anger

Is to recognize

the false worship

capturing its gaze

laying hold of its priorities 

and reorienting all

UP

to You

Where it ought never have left.

Most of life’s problems come when we have too focused attention on ourselves and not enough on You, Abba.  Problems don’t disappear when we look to you, but they take their rightful place and become manageable once more.