What is worship?
- Prayer, Thanksgiving, and Praise
1 Chronicles 16:4
Then David assigned some of the Levites to the Chest of God to lead worship—to intercede, give thanks, and praise the God of Israel.
- Giving our true selves to God
“Everything comes from you; all we’re doing is giving back what we’ve been given from your generous hand. As far as you’re concerned, we’re homeless, shiftless wanderers like our ancestors, our lives mere shadows, hardly anything to us. God, our God, all these materials—these piles of stuff for building a house of worship for you, honoring your Holy Name—it all came from you! It was all yours in the first place! I know, dear God, that you care nothing for the surface—you want us, our true selves—and so I have given from the heart, honestly and happily. And now see all these people doing the same, giving freely, willingly—what a joy!”
John 4:23
“It’s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration.”
Psalm 25:12
My question: What are God-worshipers like? Your answer: Arrows aimed at God’s bull’s-eye.
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Who do we worship?
- God Almighty, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit: Three-in-One
Exodus 34:13
“Tear down their altars, smash their phallic pillars, chop down their fertility poles. Don’t worship any other god. God—his name is The-Jealous-One—is a jealous God. Be careful that you don’t make a covenant with the people who live in the land and take up with their sex-and-religion life, join them in meals at their altars, marry your sons to their women, women who take up with any convenient god or goddess and will get your sons to do the same thing.”
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I would love to hear from you! WHAT is worship and WHO do we worship?
ATTIC,
Steve
