True Worship

“Jesus met them and greeted them. And they ran to him, grasped his feet, and worshiped him” (Matthew 28:9, NLT).

If you say, or hear, the word worship, many ideas and definitions will fill the mind as every person has a concept of the act. However, I submit that worship must be a lifestyle not just an action offered in a place of worship. Indeed, it is wonderful to gather together with fellow Believers in the House of God to worship the King corporately, but we are only vibrant in life as we offer the whole of our lives as worship. If you limit worship to where you are, the moment you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of worship behind like a crumpled-up church bulletin.

True biblical worship so satisfies our total personality that we don’t have to shop around for man-made substitutes. Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the awakening of our conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of our mind with His truth; the purifying of our imagination by His beauty; the opening of our heart to His love; the surrender of our will to His purpose—and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.

Allow me to encourage you to worship God today – he is worthy of a life of worship, and we are in need of His continual presence. Worship unites the worshipper with the One worthy of praise!

Pray with Me:

God, I come before you today to worship you. I choose not to lay out a list of my needs and wants, but rather to praise you for who you are and open myself to your desire and direction for my life. Amen.