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Malachi chapter 1 verse 11 for from the rising of the sun to its setting

my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering.

For my name will be great among the nations says the Lord of hosts. This verse comes after a

blistering indictment of God's people for the way they had approached him and worship. Basically they had

minimized his greatness. They had offered polluted sacrifices less than, far less than what God had required of them.

And it was a picture of them basically trying to fulfill their religious duties without reverence for God in awe of God and

obedience to God's word and what he had prescribed for their worship and God confronts them, the priests and the people and the

way they were handling sacrifices and is basically saying to them you have lost fear of me, reverence for me, awe before me,

and you are not glorifying me with your worship.

And as I read these verses, I think about my life,

I think about your life, are we living today in fear of God with reverence

for God with awe of God. Are we glorifying God in the way he has prescribed in his word?

Even as you think about texts in the New Testament like Romans chapter 12 verse one therefore in view of

God's mercy let us offer our bodies as living sacrifices holy and acceptable to God, for this is your spiritual act of worship.

Are you laying down your life daily before the Lord saying make me holy purify my mind my

thoughts my desires my words my actions may everything I do be pleasing and glorifying to you.

May I walk in an, Acts 931 kind of a way, walk in the fear of God knowing that he is the Lord of

hosts the great king over the nations and one day it will be clear that he alone is worthy of our

fear and reverence and honor and glory. God help us to live like this today.

God we pray that you would keep us, guard us,

save us from religious motion that neglects reverence for you and fear of you and awe before you.

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