Who is at the center of your praise? Revelation 1-5

Revelation 4:11

“ Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.”

Throughout Scripture, particularly in this section of Revelation, we have a recorded doxology in praise and worship to God.   The book of Psalms is whole committed to such a task.  In the above doxology we see the center piece of our worship and the reason for our worship.   Christ is "worthY' to receive glory, honor and power.    The reason given is because He "created all things."    Christ was there at Creation and when God "spoke" the world into existence Jesus Christ "was the Word" (John 1:1-4).   But, the doxology doesn't stop there.   Not only is Jesus worthy of honor, glory and power because He created all things but also "because of Your will they existed and were created."   Christ was not only the agent of creation, it was for His will they were created.   Christ is the center focus of how things were created and the center focus of why things were created.   We exist because Christ willed it for the sole purpose of honoring and glorifying Him.   That is the shame and sin that comes when we take credit for things ourselves.   Satan accomplished through Adam and Eve the ultimate sin - the desire to live without Christ as the center, but rather putting yourself in the center.   Only Jesus is worth of our honor, glory  and of power.   Join the voices of the 24 elders in Revelation 4 .... shout from the top of your lungs, "Worth are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power."