Worship

Our Father in heaven is without equal. He is matchless, unique, and unrivalled in glory, splendor, and power. God is amazingly unfathomable, confoundingly immeasurable, and utterly inexhaustible. The brightest most brilliant stars in the universe pale in comparison to His glory. God cannot be fully grasped by finite human minds. He is at the same time both transcendent yet immanent; He is infinite yet intimate; His anger lasts for only a moment, but His favor lasts for a lifetime; He is all knowing yet capable of forgetting our sins He forgives; and He is both the One who executes justice and the One who pardons by grace. God is loving, merciful, holy, pure, righteous, gracious, kind, good, patient, compassionate and wonderful. He, and He alone is God. A. W. Tozer once said, “What the church needs today is a restoration of the vision of the Most High God.”

As we come to understand His more, we are drawn closer to Him. As we behold His glory, we fall down and worship. As He becomes more real in our lives, we begin to live in His presence and power. As His glory shines upon us, we are changed into His image.

Worship is our response to God’s revelation of Himself. Only as we become cognizant of more of the wonder and glory of God, are we truly able to offer a greater response to Him. If our thoughts of God are mundane, insignificant, or small, and God is relatively absent from our lives, and our hearts are either oblivious to Him, or we take Him for granted, our worship will be virtually empty. “Worship is a response and will grow or shrink in direct proportion to our view of Him,” said Graham Kendrick. We must wake up and see God in creation, in the amazing incarnation of His Son Jesus, and in our everyday lives. We must behold His glory! Glory to God in the highest! Hallelujah! Sing the wonders of His glory and majesty! Tell others of His greatness and love! Cry out in response to the riches of His grace! Give Him all glory, honor, praise, and blessing! Shout to the Lord all the earth! Give praise unto Him!

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