| The dictionary defines worship as:
extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem
Worship means to value something so highly that your affections are drawn to it, your focus is drawn to it and your time is spent with it.
To value something highly is to elevate it`s worth above other things of value.
Humans have an innate drive to worship something.
We were created to worship God. When we value God we rise to our potential.
When we worship things other than God we sink below our privilege.
Some of the things we worship other than God :
The first commandment was that we should have no other gods before the true and living God. This is not because God needs our worship. It is because we need to worship God. Worship opens up relationship with Him through which Grace flows.
In order to begin to understand God`s worth it is necessary to meditate on the available information regarding Him.
- Sources of information
- Reasons to worship
- existence -
Know ye that the Lord he is God : it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- redemption -
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
- reconciliation -
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
- righteousness -
For as by one man`s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
- sonship -
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
- heir -
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
- Holy Spirit -
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the holy ghost.
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God is a Spirit : and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.
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for thou shalt worship no other God : for the Lord, whose name is jealous, is a jealous God :
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Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
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All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
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Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a Truth thou art the Son of God.
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But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
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who changed the Truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
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And All that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
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saying with a loud voice, worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
True Worship is in Spirit (Holy Spirit) and in Truth (Word Of God).
A graven image is often worshipped instead of God.
That image may be graven in our minds based on not being filled with His Spirit (the Spirit Of Truth) and/or not knowing the Truth - the Word of God.
Our excitement about the true and living God must come from knowing Him personally - not from emotional, sensual stimulation.
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