Why Is Our Worship Lacking? Flabby Worship, Feeble Faith Have you ever thought that either your worship experience and/or your church's worship of God was somewhat flabby? I would submit that if we are honest, we would have to answer yes to this question - and by answering yes - we truly have no one to blame but ourselves. You see, our instinct of trust and worship is stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which we today largely lack and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby. We are modern people, and modern people, though we cherish great thoughts of ourselves, we have as a rule small thoughts of God. When we in the church, let alone a person on the street, uses the word God, our thought is rarely of divine majesty. - Psalms 145:5: They will speak of the glorious splendor of your majesty, and I will meditate on your wonderful works.
- 2 Peter 1:16 - We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
The bible, divinely inspired - the word of God - never lets us loose sight of God's majesty and his unlimited dominion over all his creatures. When we fail to see God's majesty, it may be due to lack of knowledge, lack of faith, or lack of desire to acknowledge his majesty - in all three of these areas we have no one else to blame but ourselves. For we can know and gain knowledge of his majesty by just looking at the stars at night ( Isaiah 40:16), we can seek faith by both asking God for it - and exercising it as he gives it to us ( Romans 10:17), and we can pray for desire to truly find God - a request that he has promised to honor ( Jeremiah 29:13) - and a request when fulfilled cannot help but result in our knowing God and the awe of his majesty. Living becomes an awesome business when we realize that we spend every moment of our life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent Creator. Lets take the time in our lives to truly seek to know God and especially his majesty. For I submit to you that as we grow in the true knowledge of his majesty, our personal and corporate worship experiences, as well as our personal and corporate relationships with God, will never be the same again.
7:37:50 AM 
|
