The fact that we are created - given the capacity to worship... and called - given the responsibility to worship - is a gift of worship to God's people. Our response with our attitudes, our singing, our prayer, our words and commitment to worship is our gift of worship to God.
Worship is divine romance. In 2 John 4:19 John declares, "We love, because He first loved us". God demonstrates to us a love that is beyond our understanding and comprehension. His love gives us a sense of awe. We respond to that love with all that God has gifted us with in expressions of adoration, praise, ministry, and service which become our gifts of love and worship to God. Our worship becomes a love gift to a love-giving God.
There is a continuum of love between lovers that keeps on giving to each other. God gives and gives His creation good gifts. Through worship we His people give back to God what has been given by Him. God gives us faith and we respond with our faith in confession of redemption and acts of submission to Him in worship. God gives materially and we respond by giving both tithes and offerings made possible by Him. God gives a song to all the redeemed. In worship we "sing unto the Lord a new song" as He has commanded. Music becomes one of the mediums of praise to Him.
There is a circular continuum pattern between God and His people which is impossible to comprehend fully and lasts for eternity, forever and ever. We were created and called to that wonderful continuum of worship. What a gift!! mjm
