Revering God

I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will revere him.
Ecclesiastes 3:14

The world has been created and established by God. As someone has said, “It is, what it is.” Regardless of how hard man works he cannot add to or take away from the world.

An interesting phrase in this passage of scripture is, “God does it so that people will revere him.” Why does God want man to revere Him? Is God an egotist? Does God have a personality flaw that He needs attention? Of course the thought of such sounds absurd.

So why does God do something specifically so that people will revere Him. Consider that God ALWAYS has our best interest at heart. He cannot compromise who He is without harming us. We need Him to be Holy. We need Him to be awesome and perfect. By definition this perfection has high standards for those who worship Him.

We are created to worship God. This is where we find our ultimate fulfillment. This is where we find our highest level of satisfaction. Revering God places us in the position for which we are created and best suited.

Consider this illustration. When a fork is asked to do the job of a spoon by using it to eat soup is setting it up for failure. It was not made for such. If such a feeling were possible for a spoon, it would be greatly frustrated. Even if it felt like serving soup would be the thing that would make it happy it would experience frustration because that is just not what it is made for.

God knows that what we are made for is to enjoy communion with him and this communion only occurs to its fullest extent when we revere Him.