BH Bulletin - Monday 12 April 2021

​Thought for the Day by Stephen Demetriou
​(Youth Minister)

When you walk through the barriers at Alton Towers amusement the experience is overwhelming; I’d describe it as full-on sensory overload!
There’s that classic theme park music blaring out, everything is brightly coloured and in your face, THEN there’s the smell of freshly fried theme park doughnuts… It’s an assault of the senses!
 
Imagine that experience taken to the next level.
I think that’s what John must have felt as the Lord Jesus welcomed him through the heavenly door in Revelation 4.
 
Have a read of Revelation 4:1-11


If you know your Bible well, you’ll notice shades of Daniel 7, Isaiah 6 and Ezekiel 1 & 2 glimmering through but there’s rainbows, thunder, oxen, precious jewels, thrones, crowns, what is going on!?!!
One of the most helpful hints to reading Revelation I’ve come across is this:
the plain thing is the main thing & the main thing is the plain thing.
Isn’t that really helpful?
 
And in Revelation 4 what is the plain main thing?
V2 There before me was a throne with someone sitting on it…
 
Ten times John mentions this THRONE it’s like his eye is constantly drawn back there and if you read the passage, you’ll notice EVERYTHING is defined in its relation to this throne. Things encircle or surround or are in front of come from this throne.
Wow.
 
God is on the throne at the centre of EVERYTHING.
 
Every detail that John recounts is designed to show off the captivating beauty of our God (the jasper and ruby); the rainbows shows off His mercy; the rumbling thunder and peals of lightning reveal God’s might & judgement; and the living creatures and the elders reveal all of creation, all of God’s people all of bowing down to the King.
Everything is joined in praise and worship of our glorious God who sits on His throne.
 
What. A. God.
This is Ultimate Reality
God is on the throne at the centre of EVERYTHING.
 
 
I wonder if our lives reflect that Ultimate Reality?
Is this throne, is this God the centre of our lives?
Does the structure of our week, the themes of our prayers, the use of our time reflect this throne room? What might it look like for you to place this throne front and centre in your life?
 
 
God is on the throne at the centre of EVERYTHING so let us join in that heavenly song praising our God who is magnificent and awesome crying Holy, Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
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