the God we worship

Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

2 Samuel 7:22

God is great. And that is why He is worshiped. Nothing else is truly great in comparison. The most engineered human city cannot compare in perfection. The finest human achievements pale in the vast greatness of the universe God created by simply speaking into existence. Human beings can only work with what God has already given them. God is great and we submit in awe of His greatness.

God is incomparable. He is unique. Only God can be Who He is and there is no other. No object of human manufacture can come even close to Him. What God does... creation, sustaining all things, loving humanity, being holy, bringing justice, forbearing in mercy, and offering grace to sinners... are all things unique to Him that we cannot do.

Only God is God. There is no God besides Him. Many human cultures have proposed more deities than history can account for. All of them are impotent. None of them can save. In our times we may try to exalt human achievement to deified status. Our inability to halt a virus, to manage even one storm, or to control the rage of human hatred shows exactly how unlike God we are. We need to worship God as the only God.

God is known. Our ears have heard His Word. We see His work in creation. He answers prayer! He has sent our Savior, Jesus, to save our souls, show us how to live trusting our Creator, taught us to be loved by the Father, led us by His Spirit, and commanded us to love one another to prove we are His changed people. Because God makes Himself known in the world, through His Word, among His worshipers, we can trust Him beyond all earthly crises and can let grace change our hearts. Then in mutual worship of God we may love one another as well. God is known because He changes people who are used by Him to change the world!