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Revelation 4:1 - 5:14 Laying Down Our Crown

by fol CHURCH on December 10, 2018

John now begins to describe the indescribable, what Heaven looks like, the eternal worship of God, indescribable creatures, events happening and their spiritual significance - I don’t think we’ll fully understand everything in these next chapters until we witness them for ourselves and then we’ll have an eternity to take it all in.

The worship of the elders has some significance for me, the act of their taking off their crowns and laying them before the One who sits on the throne, giving up their authority because they know there is someone superior to them.  They acknowledge that without God they would not exist and that everything they’ve either worked for or been given belongs to God.  It can be so easy to think of the things I have and say, “I’ve earned that” or “I deserve that” when my very existence is all thanks to Him. I should ask if there are any areas of my life where I need to take off my crown and lay it before His feet in humility, areas of my life where I’m straining to earn a crown, be it material possessions, recognition, wealth, fame or anything else that would keep me from worshipping the one who sits on the throne.

I love how the “one who is worthy to open the scroll” is described as “The Lion of The Tribe of Judah” but when John turns around He sees a Lamb “looking like it had been slaughtered” and it is the Lamb who opens the scroll and the elders and the whole of Heaven worship the Lamb. This is another aspect of God seeing us as we are in the Spirit.  Yes, Jesus may have looked like a slaughtered lamb on the cross but He actually was (and is and always will be) a triumphant Lion. The worship increases because it is through Jesus’ actions that ”saints from every tribe, language, people and nation” have been made into a “kingdom of priests”.  There is no barrier to entry, there is no work to do to become acceptable, we just have to accept that we need to lay down our crown and give Him the honour and glory that He deserves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The challenge for us is to look at areas in our lives where we need to take our crowns off?  Are there things that we may you have earned but know we wouldn’t have if it weren’t for God?  Are there areas where we need to step back and humble ourselves?  Are we pushing to earn a crown that we know isn’t ours?  Take some time to think and pray over these questions.

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