Man is born to worship. God created us for relationship with Him. However, He ends up giving us a choice after revealing Himself. Our hearts are born longing to worship something. We can look through the ages and see how man stumbled around worshipping the wrong things. Man has bowed to the sun, the moon, the animals and trees, man-made idols. We look in history and condemn, forgetting that we have created our own idols of worship in our day. And, we find just as they did that none of them satisfy. Because the worship of Yahweh has a personal relationship factor. We worship Him in spirit as He reveals Himself and He respond to our spirits. He is the only God who responds, fulfilling the unquenchable thirst that man has to worship God.
We worship one God. He created it all and deserves all our worship. Throughout history, God has rejected any and all worship that was not . . . to Him alone, of Him alone, and for Him alone? We saw how that worked out for the children of Israel. Will we make the same mistakes?
But yet, after Israel . . . we see changes in the place of worship, in the availability of Scripture, (Jesus is the Incarnate Word, and is accessible to all). The last Israel heard from God was Malachi crying, "The Messiah is coming." And in Matthew, the first book of the New Testament we find it proclaimed, "Messiah is here!" One has said, "We must see Jesus as our Conductor, who came to this world to direct a magnificent symphony that puts us in harmony with God and each other." Jesus restores order out of chaos and transforms our ugly discord into beautiful music for the glory, honor and praise of our Most High God! If we will but faithfully follow our composer and conductor our worship will be the right kind of worship that makes His praises known - that others might join in the great symphony of worship! mjm
