His Pleasure

DEVOTION

THE REVELATION

HIS PLEASURE

Rev 4:9-11

9 Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say: 11 "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being."

NIV

It would seem that these twenty-four elders who were sitting on their thrones were never sitting on their thrones. Because of the four living creatures who never stopped saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, these elders would have to be continually off their thrones falling down before him who sits on the throne saying, “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.” In these words of the twenty-four elders we have our life lesson. The first thing we need to understand is that God is exceptionally worthy to receive glory and honor and power. He is worthy to receive the most glorious condition, the most exalted state. He is worthy to receive honor, the pre-eminence, the one who outranks all others. He is worthy of receiving power, the inherent power, power residing in someone by the virtue of his nature. Who is like God? Not a single person is ever worthy of that which he is worthy of. There is no one who even comes close to his worthiness. The second thing we should notice and would be good for us to be continually aware is that fact he created all things and by his will we have been created and have our being. We should know that because God created everything, which means all things related to this earth and the rest of the universe, we as mankind, which are also his creation cannot destroy that which he created. If we could damage that which God created then we would have to say we are greater than God. But let is consider our own being only. We are created by the will of God and we have our being by the will of God. Other version use the term we were created for his pleasure. For his pleasure means it is his will that we are created and have our being. This should put our lives in perspective. We live at the pleasure of God. That means we should not be living at our own pleasure, pursuing our own desires, our own ambitions, our own plans and goals. We live at his pleasure. We need to be focused on what he desires for us rather than what we desire for us. The world, the unsaved, the unbelievers focus entirely on their own being. Have we adopted too much of their thinking? Have we allowed the thinking of the unbelievers to infiltrate ours?  Life is more then what we are going to eat, what clothes we are going to where, what house we are going to live in, what car we are going to own, what profession or trade we have, how much money we have stored up for ourselves or anything else about our own ideas of how we want our life to be. We live at the pleasure of God. This should mean something. This should put us into a frame of mind that is focused on God, on his will for us, on what he desires for and from us. It doesn’t seem to make much sense that once we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior we are free to live anyway we desire. Sure many Christians have created lists of the do’s and don’ts, but those lists are usually centered on moral issues, rather in life itself. Perhaps the list should look more like, don’t live where he doesn’t want us to live. Don’t work where he doesn’t want us to work, don’t buy a car he doesn’t want us to buy, and the list goes on. The do list might well serve as our complete life. Live doing the will of God for we are alive because of the will of God. We live because of and at his pleasure.