WHY DO WE HAVE TO WORSHIP GOD?
But the hour cometh and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth: for the Father
seeketh such to worship Him. God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must
worship Him in spirit and in truth. John 4:23-24
I was just thinking some time ago about the mystery of
worship: how deep it is, for we in our imperfect mortal state can never fully
fathom the very being whom we claim to worship; how God so much cherishes it
that He would have to seek out worshippers. May the Holy Spirit that searches
the deep thing of God and reveals them to the saints guide us into all truth
and enlighten our hearts as we read. Just to pre-warn you before you continue
reading, if you are satisfied with the status quo of what we term worship you’d
better exit this blog right now because what I’m about to expose is the bone of
the dealings of God with man and it will shift many paradigms in your life. If
you decide to read on, congratulations for you are about to know the joy of
worshipping God- no more will it be a boring chore you have to get through with
in a haste but you will never ever want to leave the secret place of true
worship.
God is a supreme being and obviously self-sufficient. He
will fare well if not much better without us, so then why doesn’t He wipe us
out considering our foolishness? We’ll have to look back and see it from God’s
perspective why He insists that man must be the one to worship Him. I used to
and still think that maybe God was lonely and wanted some company that could
proclaim His greatness so he made Heaven to be His home. He created majestic
beings called angels who were His ministers and particularly Lucifer who was
the arch-angel in charge of worship. Unfortunately, Lucifer messed up- we all
know that story. But the fact that never ceases to fascinate me is that
assuming satan never fell, there might not have been any need for humans. God
created us as a replacement to spite the devil and that is why he was so mad
that he decided to hurt God by meddling with His grand plan. Too bad… we fell
to his antics in the garden of Eden oblivious to what we had missed. God isn’t
ready to lose his second creation that He gave the special gift of free-will
and of being his children, so he sent Jesus to redeem us. Jesus said at a point
that if we reject Him and refuse to give Him praise, He will raise up stones in
our place.
The hour has come when true worshippers will worship God in
spirit and in truth. God is seeking people that will abandon the archaic and
worldly idea of worship and press into true worship. False worship of
hypocrisy, many but vain actions and words are no longer acceptable.
If I were hungry, I would not
tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof. Will I eat the
flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto God thanksgiving…
psalms 50:12-14a
Bring no more vain oblations;
incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of
assemblies, I cannot away with it; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Isaiah 1:13
As Annie Dillard wrote:
On the whole, I do not find
Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does
anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or as I
suspect, does no one believe a word of it?... it is madness to wear ladies’
straw or velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Usher
should issue life preservers and signal flares.
I’m gonna highlight some
reasons why we ought to worship God
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God deserves our worship.
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God demands our worship
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The more we give God, the
more we can receive from Him.
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Worship reconnects our
spirits to God
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We gain access to God’s
presence through worship
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Worship moves God.
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