The exclamation point of worship

Continuing on a trend:

Psalm 75 reads, "We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks; your name is near. People tell of your wondrous deeds.:

Isn't that something we have lost over time, the ability to tell others of God's wondrous deeds? Perhaps we feel that God is out of the wondrous deeds department. No Red Sea. No Lazaruses. No sun stopping in the sky.

Certainly God hasn't been doing the big, big stuff lately. No entire nation has been saved from slavery lately. At least not to my knowledge.

We don't even have the tongue-talking controversy any longer. No longer do sects begin talking in tongues when the Holy Spirit comes upon them.

That's just the way it is.

So what do we praise Him for today?

Oh, we praise Him for the sun and the moon, the day and the night. We praise him for raises at our jobs and for good health and such. But we do it almost by rote, praying in the morning a litany of thank yous and at night a repetition of way to gos.

But do we do this (Psalm 76 fourth verse)? "Glorious are you, more majestic than the everlasting mountains. (Verse 7) But you indeed are awesome! Who can stand before you when once your anger is roused?"

Have we lost the exclamation points in our worship? Have we lost the awesomeness of God?

When Rich Mullins penned the song Awesome God, he was trying to point out that God is so muc an "other" that we sometimes can't comprehend who he is. He is so above us, his ways are so much not our ways, that we can't even understand his motives, his actions, his mannerisms.

The scriptures say that He is above all things, above all leaders, above all plans, above all. That's undeniable. But we don't act that way. We treat him as if He were one of us, just a man who walked the earth and not a deity who created it.

Today let's turn our blessings toward God himself, a God who is richly deserving of our worship.

Let's put the exclamation point back into our worship, once and for all.

(Psalm 88, verse 1-2) "O Lord, God of my salvation, when, at night, I cry out in your presence, let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry."