Worship - Sabbath Week One
Psalm 95
Worship and Warning
1 Come, let us shout joyfully to the Lord,
shout triumphantly to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving;
let us shout triumphantly to Him in song.
shout triumphantly to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving;
let us shout triumphantly to Him in song.
3 For the Lord is a great God,
a great King above all gods.
4 The depths of the earth are in His hand,
and the mountain peaks are His.
5 The sea is His; He made it.
His hands formed the dry land.
a great King above all gods.
4 The depths of the earth are in His hand,
and the mountain peaks are His.
5 The sea is His; He made it.
His hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7 For He is our God,
and we are the people of His pasture,
the sheep under His care.[a]
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7 For He is our God,
and we are the people of His pasture,
the sheep under His care.[a]
Today, if you hear His voice:
8 Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
as on that day at Massah in the wilderness
9 where your fathers tested Me;
they tried Me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know My ways.”
11 So I swore in My anger,
“They will not enter My rest.”
8 Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
as on that day at Massah in the wilderness
9 where your fathers tested Me;
they tried Me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know My ways.”
11 So I swore in My anger,
“They will not enter My rest.”
Worship - Dictionary Definition
1: to honor or show reverence for
2: to regard with great or extravagant respect, honor, or devotion
Often, the definition of a word is poignant, but have you ever heard a dictionary's definition and thought to yourself, "Wow, it's missing the so much!" A lot of times, this happens for me when I look up important spiritual disciplines, practices, or traditions (i.e., prayer) or characteristics of God (i.e., glory) and I certainly feel it in regards to this word - worship.
I won't pretend I have a better definition, but many smarter and wiser people than me exist, and some of them capture a little bit better what this thing we call worship is.
Here's a few of the quotes that stand out to me from what I've read / seen:
"Worship is seeing what God is worth, and giving Him what He's worth." -Tim Keller
"Christ, in His divine innocence, said to the Woman of Samaria”, ‘Ye worship ye know not what’ – being apparently under the impression that it might be desirable, on the whole, to know what one was worshiping."
-Dorothy Sayers
“He loves Thee too little who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.”
-St. Augustine
(note, here, I'd say "loves" is akin to worship)
***(also note, I ran out of time to write anything meaningful, so this is all I got)
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