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By darlene lopez
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God clearly has made known himself to us in scripture. He has made it clear to us that he is the Creator of all things. In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth (Gen. 1:1). It was with purpose that he created and formed them. When God created Adam it was with reason. They walked together freely and openly. The Garden was Adam’s Sanctuary. Unity, intimacy, and a kissing toward the Holy feet of God is all that was known. There was no battle of worshipping of idols. The simplicity and reverential worship Adam experienced is what we need to get back to.
Sometimes as modern day Christians we forget how to worship or we do not give God the appropriate response he deserves. By this I mean, we can esteem the sound of a song or the tone of the way the song was sung as oppose to the meditation of the words. Sometimes we sit staring off in space or thinking about lunch as the Worship team leads us in songs. Sometimes we prefer the upbeat to the hymns. Sometimes we may even focus on the inadequacy of ourselves; or sometimes there is no emotion in us at all.
Amazing grace how sweet the sound , I once was lost but now I’m found. Do those lyrics to that famous hymn really resound in our hearts? Do we respond correctly to those words?
Can we get back to the simplicity of Worshipping God because he is all deserving of our Worship? We are the clay and he is the potter. Therefore our Worship should reveal the truth about who he is and the truth about who we are. We are undeserving of Worshipping God but because of Jesus we can Worship God in spirit and freely. We are able to bow all that we are before all that God is. It is his will that is to be done, not ours.
Our Worship does not and should not end when the music stops. God will only accept that Worship that is undefiled. Cain brought his sacrifice and it was not acceptable to God. Our Worship is only acceptable when we are living lives that are holy and blameless. I Peter tells us to be holy for he is holy. We can not harbor sin and then expect our Worship to a sweet aroma to God. He will not and cannot tolerate a polluted heart. Our will must be surrendered moment by moment and then our lives will glorify him leading us to live a life of Worship. God created us to Worship. Now, it is up to us whom we will chose to Worship.
As God reveals himself to you through his word, others, lyrics in songs, there must always be an appropriate respond. This is a life of corporate worship.
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