Response of Worship

When we consider the magnitude of the authority of Jehovah and His desire to make a covenant with mortal man, worship begins to rise within us. This worship is the Covenant response that God is looking for in us. John 4:23 (New Living Translation) "23 But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way." Jesus was asked to name the greatest commandment by one of the Sadducees. Matthew 22:37-40 (NLT) 37 Jesus replied, “‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”David’s psalms are filled with his praise for the majesty of God. Daniel magnifies the majestic works of His hand. Almost every prayer you read in the O.T. begins with praise of the awesome Might of our God. It becomes a positioning before Him. When we live with this attitude of awareness of Who He is and how great is His Majesty, and awesome His power, we change our view of ourselves and our circumstances. Everything in this realm becomes less and He is magnified in our sight.
True worship in spirit and truth is not a matter of place, time or method. It is a way of life. When the call to worship comes in a public meeting, it is not a beginning of worship to the worshipper. It is a verbal sharing with other worshippers of what is always in the heart. This shared worship is very important for it defines and expresses what has been an inner excitement and mostly silent sense of His Presence but now in these shared times of worship is strengthened by the impartation of other worshippers so our own worship grows. It is not dependent on this time for expression, but the expression is developed and the strength from that shared worship is sustaining to our own worship.
When we face our difficult circumstances with worship and praise of our awesome God, we not only give to God a covenant response, but we belittle the circumstance.
Become a worshipper. It is the only thing you do now that you will do in eternity. When you are a worshipper, you practice and come to love doing and are never bored doing the thing you will do when you enter your eternal existence and will continue doing eternally. That may not be the best sentence but it is the only way I can express my anticipation of such worship that the angels who worship now will fall silent in the presence of such heartfelt worship that will come from all the redeemed of the earth.