I heard a statement today about the royalness of God. This was spoken by a British man from the context of rule by a king. In America we do not have a king. And so any idea of royalness is lost on us.
Pentecostals also have little regard for royalty or royalness regarding God. We hold God in very loose and familiar terms. He is our father and our friend. We talk to him about the most mundane subjects and we believe that God not only hears, but he cares.
One thing that familiarity robs us of is the awe and wonder of God. We lose sight of his grandeur and magnificence. We never say woe is me! Like the prophet said. We would dance in worship if dancing was not frowned on in our Fellowship. We would not fall on our knees or lay prostrate before God ever.
I am not advocating that we need a king to understand how grand and glorious God is. But our thinking almost reduces God to our terms and our understanding.
What we do we do well. But with God I think there is more that we have not considered or thought about just yet. God is a great king and he deserves not only our obedience, but also our respect and our admiration and our sense of wonder.
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