Giving God all my Worship

Scripture:
Oh, the depth of the riches
both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God!
How unsearchable His judgments
and untraceable His ways!
For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been His counselor?
Or who has ever first given to Him,
and has to be repaid?
For from Him and through Him
and to Him are all things.
To Him be the glory forever. Amen.
Romans 11:33-36

Observation: Before entering into his full instructions about how to live the Christian life, Paul gives us a worship song. He calls out that God is all powerful and all knowing. God is wise and just. There is no one who can give counsel or gifts or riches to God, for he owns and commands all things.

This is the ultimate summary of Paul's discussions about our state as believers. We believe in Jesus, but we have nothing more to bring to the table to offer God. As believers, we cannot then advise God or give him any earthly things. God doesn't need our earthly stuff. Paul has spent several chapters discussing the meaning of our faith and how it came to be given to us as a gift from God, and he is about to state that therefore what we must give to God is simply ourselves body, mind, and spirit. But in between is this song of worship ... God have given the greatest love to us, and there is nothing of earth that we can give in return.

Application: I see an irony in Paul stating we can give God nothing ... as the lyrics of a worship song. We can give God our worship, adoration, thanksgiving, praise, honor. Yes, these are the giving of ourselves that Paul is about to speak of, but worship is what we have. It is not of earth, but it is also of spirit, and it is eternal.

I give to God my heartfelt worship. Lord, you are worthy to be praised! May my lips forever sing of your glory and love.

Prayer: Lord, I will sing of your love forever. I know my help comes from the Lord, the creator of heaven of earth. To you my heart belongs. When I stumble daily in my walk with you, and I do stumble daily, I will still seek to praise you and worship you as the Lord of my life. Forever may I honor you, my Lord and my God. Amen.