The Lord gave us a wondeful service with the David Warren Family last Sunday morning. Amazing all the instruments that they use in their programs. David preached a challanging message and we left rejoicing in the Lord.

For worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening
of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the
purifying of imagination by His beauty; the opening of the heart to His love;
the surrender of will to His purpose — and all of this gathered up in
adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and
therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin
and the source of all actual sin.

Warren W. Wiersbe, The Integrity Crisis, Thomas
Nelson Publishers, 1991, p. 119.

“The clowns were particularly good and the last one of them was a little
fellow wearing a very wonderful high hat. While he was bowing elaborately to a
dignified woman, his hat fell off and an elephant sat on it.

“The clown gestured wildly at the elephant, but the beast sat still. He waved
and shouted again and again, but the elephant never budged. Angrily the clown
stepped behind the elephant and kicked with all his strength, and hopped away
with a sore foot in his hands.

“Then, frantic with anger, the little clown turned back to the elephant and
tried to lift him off the hat. Defeated and in complete despair, the clown sat
down and started to eat peanuts. The elephant was interested in peanuts and got
up, ambled over, and begged for one!”

That was a powerful illustration for that minister. He realized that he’d
just witnessed a spiritual object lesson: You can’t accomplish anything for God
by crabbing and kicking at the world (or your spouse, child, neighbor or
co-worker!).

Morning Glory, January 12, 1994.