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It is possible to “worship” God in vain!
Worship is…Focusing on and Responding to God
The word worship descends from the Saxon word weorthscype, which later became worthship.
The Hebrew for worship describes the thought of prostrating oneself or bowing in surrender and submission.
The more we focus on God, the more we understand and appreciate His infinite worth.
As we understand and appreciate this, we can’t help but respond to Him.
EXERCISE: Let’s each close our eyes and in as brief as possible (not more than three or four words) say something about God that describes His character and identity.
If you could see God at this moment, you would so utterly understand His worthiness of worship that you would instinctively fall on your face and worship Him.
So how does the invisible God reveal Himself to us here that we might focus on Him?
General Revelation through Creation…Specific Revelation through His Word
So let’s take a moment and meditate on what it means to us that God is holy...
That’s why all worship of God—public, family, and private worship—should be based upon and include much of the Bible.
So if there’s little revelation of God, there is little focus on God.
And if there is little focus on God, there is little worship of God.
Conversely, much revelation of God fosters much focus on God, which in turn evokes much worship of God.
You may be listening to a biblically sound sermon, but if you aren’t mindful of what it says about God or from God to you, you aren’t worshiping.
You may be singing “Holy, holy, holy,” but if you aren’t thinking about God while singing it, you are not worshiping.
You may be listening to someone pray, but if you aren’t praying with him or her and thinking of God, you aren’t worshiping.
Worship often includes words and actions, but it goes beyond them to the focus of the mind and heart.
Worship is the God-centered focus and response of the soul; it is being preoccupied with God.
Worship is…Done in Spirit and Truth
The Holy Spirit opens minds to the truth of Scripture and awakens hearts that were dead toward God.
He causes souls that were cold in worship to flame with passion for Christ.
Spirit Filled worship is from inside out!
Truth Filled worship is from the Bible in!
First, we worship God as He is revealed in the Bible, not as we might want Him to be.
Second, worship according to the truth of Scripture means to worship God in the ways to which He has given His approval in Scripture.
In other words, we should do in the worship of God what God says in the Bible we should do in worship.
So we must worship in both spirit and truth, with both heart and head, with both emotion and thought.
If we worship with too much emphasis on spirit we will be mushy and weak on the truth, worshiping mainly according to feelings.
That can lead anywhere from a lazy, unthinking tolerance of anything in worship at one extreme to uncontrollable spiritual wildfire on the other.
But if we overemphasize worship in truth and minimize worship in spirit, then our worship will be taut, grim, and icily predictable.
(pg.
109)
Worship is…Expected both Publicly and Privately
Your devotional experiences may rival those of Jonathan Edwards or George Müller, but you need corporate worship as much as they and these Jewish Christians in Hebrews 10:25 did.
What are some graces and blessings of corporate worship that cannot be achieved in private worship?
Jesus went the the synagogues but He also went away for a private time of worship with God.
How can we worship God publicly once each week when we do not care to worship Him privately throughout the week?
Can we expect the flames of our worship of God to burn brightly in public on the Lord’s Day when they barely flicker for Him in secret on other days?
“The Master sent me to tell you that He is willing to meet with you in private whenever you’re ready, and for as much time as you want to spend, and He’ll be expecting you most every day”
Worship is…A Discipline to be Cultivated
It is a journey not a destination…PRESS ON!
The Worship of God makes people more Godly because people become like their focus.
Describing contemporary man, someone has said, “He worships his work, works at his play, and plays at his worship.”
In defiance of this, will you cultivate the Discipline of worship?
A.W. Tozer: “If you will not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him one day a week.”
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