Worship

When I hear people say, “Worship was wonderful today,” I often wonder what or who was the object of worship? To me, it’s like members of the audience at a performance saying to each other, “This standing ovation is wonderful, exhilarating and refreshing. I am enjoying this standing “O” immensely.

When I think of worship, I think of words like adoration, devotion, honor, admiration, awe, and yes, fear and submission. This is why I imagine that the worshipper’s response should be more like, “Isn’t He wonderful? Isn’t He great? Isn’t He beautiful? Isn’t He majestic?”

Yet how often do we come away with a sense of AWE of Him or for Him as we are in the assembly? How often are we shaken up by the sense of His Presence?

I think that if we worshipped properly, and if there was a “visitor” in the assembly, at some point in the worship, the visitor would be convinced and convicted that “God really is among you!” (I Corinthians 14:24-25).

Lord, help me not to veil Your majesty and glory and steal Your thunder.