Revelation Thoughts

I've been reading through the book of Revelation with my best friend and it is absolutely crazy. I feel like I've been stretched more than Stretch Armstrong. I think it is awesome that John wrote down the praises of those around the throne. Their praises say so much about our God.
Amen!
Praise and glory
and wisdom and thanks and honor
and power and strength
be to our God for ever and ever
Amen!
I want to trust and follow a God like that.
There is also a lot of scary stuff in Revelation that I don't understand. However, I am realizing that in order to follow God, we have to follow all of him, not just the parts that pat our backs. We can't just cut and paste from the Bible and take what makes us feel good. If we do that, we have created a fake god, we have committed idolatry.
Confession: There have been times in my life when I have made God into who I want him to be. He became the one who gave me love and joy and peace and strength. He never called me to sacrifice, and there is no hardship and there is no suffering or wrestling. I'm almost done with the New Testament, and I have learned that it is the latter descriptors that are what God has called us to. Don't believe me? Read Luke 14:25-35. The cost is high. If we want to follow Jesus wholeheartedly, we cannot be selective. He is the Lion and the Lamb.
I'll leave you with an awesome passage.
And there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb....These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them. Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat down on them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb at the center before the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Revelation 7:9-10, 14-17