Awe and Humility

This morning the following Bible passage was in my email, and when I read it I was awe struck…

Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.^[

I Chronicles 29:11

After reading this I felt just in awe of God’s greatness and power and felt so utterly humbled before God. All sense of ego on my part just dissolved, and I as I began my morning prayers I felt like I was truly on my knees, mentally.  I pondered what does it mean to be a humble servant of the Lord?  Does that mean that we have or are nothing?  I then remembered part of the Golden Text, or theme, of this week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson on the subject of Substance, from the book of Luke: 

. . . it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. . . .

Luke 12:32 it

I was recently asked “what does it mean to have the kingdom?  Now that we’ve been given the kingdom, now what?”.  Well, we get to have the confidence that God is providing all that we need, and there is never any lack or limitation when we put God first.  We live out from that kingdom and have dominion over temptations to doubt or fear. In fact, the first part of that passage states: Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

If we have the kingdom, we have all the richness and good that it comes with, and we can proceed in life knowing that Love, another word for God (according to 1 John), is providing for every need – including health and wholeness, belonging and community, steady supply.  So we don’t need to fear, and we can live completely unselfishly knowing that there is an endless supply of good, not only for ourselves but for each and every one of us.  There is no “us and them” in the kingdom.  We are all given equally and abundantly.  

 If we have the kingdom, we have all the richness and good that it comes with, and we can proceed in life knowing that Love, another word for God (according to 1 John), is providing for every need – including health and wholeness, belonging and community, steady supply.  So we can live completely unselfishly knowing that there is an endless supply of good, not only for ourselves but for each and every one of us.  There is no “us and them” in the kingdom.  We are all given equally and abundantly.  

As the next verse of the first text I shared states:

Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.^[

I Chronicles 29:12

So we can have it all, when we humbly acknowledge our true source of all good.  But you may say, wait a minute, that’s not what the world looks like… there are some that seem to have it all and some that seem to have nothing or very little.  Well, when we align our thought with Love’s divine provision, we will find that it is there for us, even in the toughest circumstances.  I find that in those moments when I give gratitude for what I do have, and lean into Divine Love, and trust, humbly acknowledge Love, God as the true source of all good, all harmony, all strength and provision, and get self out of the way, that the way opens up to answering each and every need. 

And then I get to sing – How Great Thou Art…  a song that always makes me feel a sense of God’s greatness and a deep sense of humility and awe.  I love this version especially because of the beautiful, awe inspiring setting where they are singing.  

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