All nations shall come and worship

Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, For Your judgments have been manifested." – Revelation 15v4

This is one of those messages that when I first read it my response can almost be one of scepticism. “All the nations shall come and worship? All of them?’

That hardly seems feasible in the light of what we are facing today. In my relatively short 54 years on this earth the world seems destined to do the opposite. At one stage of my life a healthy worship of God was not only acceptable, but almost expected. Even the worse of men would hardly mock God or His people. For most of the world, at least my part of the world, God was a part of society. People prayed in school and at sporting events. Political leaders quoted the Bible regularly and speeches were filled with scriptural references.

But now all of that is gone. Some try to say that we in the west have outgrown God. We have evolved past our need for Him. He has been turned out of every aspect of our society.

One day however every nation will come and worship before Him. Those nations who have always kept God out and those who have only recently begun to do so alike will come before Him in worship and praise.

So where does that leave us? Do we join them now in their exclusion of God from our everyday lives? I trow not! (Sorry – I love that word :) - it means ‘think’ )

Instead, why don’t we go ahead and get a head start on them? Lets go ahead and make worship a part of our lives every day and every waking moment so that we can lead the way when the whole world starts to do so!