Revelation Reflection Essay

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Miranda Praise, in the dictionary, is the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation. Or the offering of grateful homage in words or song, as an act of worship: a hymn of praise to God. And finally, the state of being approved or admired. I thought how that related to my definition of praise. I think praise is giving your everything to God. I think of praise as an act of surrendering all I am and putting the time into me and my fathers relationship. Praise re-occurs a whole lot in this book, so I probably won't be reflecting on every time someone praises God, but I would like to point some of my favourite verses filled with praise within this book. Revelation 4:8 says, “and the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night, they never cease to say, ‘holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.’” This is beautiful praise. This reassures me in every way. I can say this with all confidence in the world that he is to come. I find praising relaxing and reassuring. I find it encouraging that throughout this whole experience, John is learning. I think sometimes I picture John as someone who knows it all and who has nothing to learn, but this book kind of showed me that John was learning too. He was learning what things God had in store and its cool to see him in a different position. This whole book has a lot of beautiful praise in it. A lot of the songs we sing today, come from verses in Revelation. Revelation 11:17 says, “We give thanks to you Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you bae taken your great power and begun to reign. The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of

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