Notes of Faith November 6, 2025
In the Midst of Mystery
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.
Hebrews 11:4
Christian musical artist Seph Schlueter was touring and preparing for a new album release when he and his wife received bad news. The twenty-week ultrasound of the couple’s unborn baby girl no longer showed a heartbeat. That was the hardest month of his life, he said, but “I can still praise you in this pain, God, and in the midst of mystery.”1
When we worship the Lord, we’re offering a sacrifice to Him. We learn to praise Him, even in the middle of pain and mystery. Abel brought his worship and his sacrifice to God by faith, and God honored him for it. His example still speaks to us.
When we worship, we are lifting our hearts and voices upward to One who is greater than our problems and pain, higher than our hurts and wounds, and more eternal than our burdens on earth. Worshiping transports us to the throne. It lifts us above the mirey clay.
Practice saying, “Praise the Lord!” throughout the day. Let’s offer God the sacrifice of praise.
Without worship we go about miserable.
A. W. Tozer
1Michael Foust, “Seph Schlueter Finds Hope in Worship After Losing Baby Girl,” Crosswalk, July 17, 2025.
Robin and I never got to see our first baby together. This little one’s heartbeat was not heard at the first appointment that I was to attend with her. I was so excited to hear that fast little heartbeat. We did not lose that baby. God took that baby home to be with Him and we will see that child in heaven, recognizing that boy or girls as our child and have them for all eternity to love. Praise God for His eternal blessings.
Ps 150
Praise the Lord.
Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heavens.
2 Praise him for his acts of power;
praise him for his surpassing greatness.
3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,
praise him with the harp and lyre,
4 praise him with tambourine and dancing,
praise him with the strings and flute,
5 praise him with the clash of cymbals,
praise him with resounding cymbals.
6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord.
Pastor Dale