Our perspective of God is so small.

I remember heading to Yellowstone with some friends years ago. We started out from Southern MN and drove west through South Dakota. I don’t remember where, but somewhere along the line we could see the Rocky Mountains. From SD or eastern Wyoming, the Rockies look like something you could step over. They didn’t look very impressive. If that was the extent of my knowledge of the Rockies, I’d wonder what all the hype was about.

But then we got closer and closer – eyes widened and mouths dropped open in awe of the majesty surrounding us. The Rockies didn’t get bigger, my knowledge and understanding of the Rockies did.

Our knowledge of God impacts our sacrifices and our attitudes in bringing them. If God is distant in your life and your knowledge of Him is puny, your sacrifices will be puny and your attitude will be ho-hum. You look at the enthusiasm of others and wonder what the hype is all about.

But as you read the Word, as you encounter the Lord as proclaimed in Scripture, eyes widen and mouths drop open in awe of the majesty surrounding you.

Let me put it this way, if you keep forgetting to bring sacrifices to the Lord or you bring your leftovers, if your attitude in coming to worship is ho-hum or a bit of a chore, your knowledge of God is the problem, empty-headedness is the problem. Your God is way too small.

The solution is not to try harder or work to have a better attitude; the solution is opening the Word and getting to know the God of the Bible, drawing ever closer to him, humbling yourself and asking the Spirit of God to reveal to you the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the all-powerful Creator of the universe, the King of kings and Lord of lords!