Worthy

Firstly, please forgive me - I'm going to be using the word "worthy" a lot here. Also, I'm not trying to dig on anyone. As usual, I'm just trying to iron out my thoughts:

There's hundreds of songs, poems and phrases out there which have the words, "You are worthy" within them.

These songs have lyrics such as "You are worthy of my praise", "You alone are worthy" and "worthy is the Lord". I love these songs, and I sing them with all my heart but something bothers me. It's bothered me for some time now, and although I think I do understand the point of the phrase, I thought I'd share my views anyway.

When did God become unworthy? When did we feel the need to tell Him that He is worthy, worthier than anyone else?

Forgive me, but I think it's pretty disrespectful to belt out how worthy our God is. He already knows that. Nothing has made Him worthy; He just is! We should be singing about how He made us worthy to sing His praises, to even utter His name.

How can we even imply, through our well-meaning worship, that He could ever be anything other than worthy?

I'm not suggesting we stop singing these songs, I'm simply suggesting that we don't let them ruin our image of God, and how awesome He truly is!

I pray that we don't begin to question His greatness and worthiness, because if we do, He might start to question ours - and there's a lot less evidence for our worthiness than there is for His!

I wrote a poem about this exact topic a while ago, if you don't mind, I'll share it in the next post. Just to show you how long it's been on my mind!

Be blessed, and remember why He is worthy!
- Lisa

Note: please see the addition to this post, here.