Love and Worship

Psalm 95:6-7 “Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.”

Dallas Willard continues on personal soul care, that as the living Word and the written Word found in Holy Scripture occupies our minds, we naturally and supernaturally come to love and adore God because we clearly and constantly see how lovely He is. The glorious being of God is not just the truth, but also an inexhaustible wonder and delight to our soul and spirit. God is the treasure.

Psalm 119:14-16 “I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches. I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways. I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your Word.”

What are our thoughts most upon? Have our thoughts got wings? Are they fled aloft? Do we contemplate Christ and glory? Distractions, ambitions, busyness, pleasures, and temptations crowd God our of sinners thoughts. The God-rejecting world system never thinks of God, unless with horror. Yet, the hymn of heaven will be a constant presence in the child of God’s inner life.

Revelation 5:13 Every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”

Worship will become the constant undertone of our lives. It is the single most powerful force in completing and sustaining restoration of our whole beings to God. Worship is, chiefly and eminently, the act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; or the reverence and homage paid to him in religious exercises, consisting in adoration, confession, prayer, thanksgiving and the like. Nothing can inform, guide, and sustain pervasive and radiant goodness in a person other than the “true” vision of God and the worship that spontaneously arises from it. Then the power of the indwelling Christ in our heart flows from us to others.

Psalm 29:2 “Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.”

Remember, however, that we are not “trying” to worship. Worship is not a “check off” item on a list and is not another job we have to do. Our part is to turn our minds towards God and to attend to His graceful actions in our souls. This is the primary “care of the soul”. Then love and worship flow in our lives as we walk constantly with God. By stepping with the Lord in the flow of His love, mercy and grace, we live with godly spontaneity, love or neighbors, and fulfill the Great Commission by ministering the Word of God and the power of the gospel in a world that so desperately needs to hear. Worship is not what we do as much as it is who we are in Christ, a transformed person. We do not worship God because we have to, but because we truly desire to worship and glorify His holy name due to who He is and whose we are. Psalm 95:6 “Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.”

In Christ, Brian