Hearing a great message about angels from Jack Graham, while on vacation this morning, got me thinking in this direction. Psalm 103:20ff - "Bless the Lord, O you His angels, you mighty ones who do His word, obeying the voice of His word. Bless the Lord, all His hosts, His ministers, who do His will! Bless the Lord, all His works, in all places of His dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul!" Just in this one passage we see that angels are worshippers and that they are warriors.
Interesting, as I have asked for years for our worship leading choir to be worshipping prayer warriors and we now have a group of folks in our church who have joined us in praying for both private worship and the gatherings of the body of Christ in worship.
Notice, an angel's purpose is to worship the Lord and make sure His sovereign will is accomplished. They don't exist to bring attention to themselves, but to give honor and worship and focus on Him and the accomplishing of His Holy will. And notice in this passage they bring attention to both the Lord because of who He is, and also bring attention to His great works in all places over which He has dominion.
So, as exemplified by angels created by God, the worship is not about them and it is not about us. It is about Him. And their purpose is to see that the sovereign will of God is done, even as we are to focus on our purpose of seeing that His will, not ours but His, is done in His kingdom. So may we not only be blessed by the fact, according to Scripture, that there are angels who are charged with worship and working out God's will, but may we also learn something from them about our own purpose in glorifying Him and being a servant of His kingdom and will here in earth as it is in Heaven. mjm
