This
offering of the crowns back to God reminds us that everything God gives us
still belongs to Him. Just as Hannah asked for a son, and then gave Samuel back
into God’s service (1 Samuel 1), we acknowledge that however God may bless us
or reward us from time to time, all things are still His and are still to be
used for His glory. The twenty-four elders in this scene demonstrate that
spirit of offering perfectly.
This
passage also tells us why they are so eager to worship God. First, it is
because He is “holy, holy, holy.” He is special, like no other in His
righteousness. As the only shining example of someone who always does right, He
is indeed worthy of honor.
Second,
He “was and is and is to come.” God is eternal. He had no beginning. He simply
always “was,” if we can even use that time-related term. He will have no end. As
the one who created time, beginnings and endings don’t apply to Him. As such,
He is the only one who can create life and make a beginning for someone else.
As verse 11 says, He is worthy to be worshipped because He created all
things.
“You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for You created all things,
and by Your will they were created
and have their being.”
How
good it is to know that our creator will never cease to be so that He will
never let us down and that He is “holy, holy, holy” so that He will always do
what is right for us. He is truly a God in whom we can place all of our trust.
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