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But in the middle minutes, we discover who we are and what we carry.
Adoration is choosing from God’s Word a part of His character and His nature to meditate on, particularly one with which we wrestle. Adoration reaches beyond our thirty-minute, sanitized quiet time. It can come from our base questions and fears, our honest grappling.
Adoration takes my eyes off what I’m not and puts them on who He is at the very moment I decide I’m distasteful.
Sometimes you have to show up and sing your way into truth.
And Jesus responded, three times, with this: “It is written.” In the raw vulnerability that temptation surfaces, Jesus pointed to the Word.
C. S. Lewis writes, “We shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest.”7
Our differences made me marvel at the uniqueness of God’s hand.
Adoration retrains the eye to behold. And eventually, we become what we behold.
Peanut butter smudges on my kitchen counter and raisins convening in the corners of my floor don’t disqualify me from a meeting with God.
I adore You, God of the waiting room. I praise You for turning what is otherwise discarded into a place where You grow me. I adore You for meeting me in the waiting and changing me in the waiting. I adore You for growing me slowly, God. Your way. I adore You for Your way, God. The best way.
