"Fall on your knees..."
So goes a line from my favorite Christmas carol which I have been singing and meditating on today. When was the last time you fell on your knees? I am not talking about kneeling during prayer--although that is a powerful place to be as well. I'm talking about literally having your feet kicked out from under you as you come into the awesome presence and holiness of Almighty God. When...OK, if we will just stop and take some time during our busy lives to seriously pursue and experience standing in the presence of God, I don't think we will be standing very long. Instead, I think we will find ourselves falling to our knees in overwhelming thankfulness, humbleness, unworthiness, joy and pure love. What other reaction can there possibly be as we come to the God of the universe and sustainer of all things?
John paints us a very powerful image about this in Revelation 7:11, "All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying: 'Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!'"
Oh God, how I long to daily be knocked off my feet by you, falling to my knees in your presence so that I may be able as Paul rightly says,
"...to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that I may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
-Amen
