Revelation 5

13 Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying:

“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
be praise and honor and glory and power,
for ever and ever!”



Why is it that "every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea" can praise so freely and completely? While those of us made in the image of God are so incapable of praising like that?

We second-guess our praise. We limit and control ourselves. We do not give all of ourselves to anything - even God - all of the time.

I'm spending the week with my 3-year old neice. We're in her house, visiting museums, struggling to maintain anything like a normal diet. This evening, after 5 hours at the chidlren's museum, she had a major melt-down. The passion that rang out from behind her bedroom door was unmistakable! She screamed and threw her whole body into her fury. For quite some time.

Somehow, by the time my chidren have reached the age of 7, we've left that sort of extreme passion behind. We've learned to moderate ourselves - our fury and our joy. We no longer laugh and shriek with such wild abandon.

And we no longer praise without that same modulation. 'Tis a sin.