Sunday, September 29, 2013

Trinitarian Worship

It would be understood, I assume, that the Trinity is very important in approaching worship.  There is much we don't fully understand about the Trinity and much understanding we haven't attained in worship.  God draws us into the three-person life.  

C. S. Lewis says, "An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers.  He is trying to get in touch with God.  But if a Christian, he knows that what is prompting him to pray is also God:  God, so to speak, inside him.  But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God comes through Christ, the Man who was God - that Christ is standing beside him, helping him to pray, praying for him.  You see what is happening.  God is the thing to which he is praying - the goal he is trying to reach.  God is also the thing inside him which is pushing him on - the motive power.  God is also the road or bridge along which he is being pushed to that goal.  So that the whole threefold life of the three-personal being is actually going on in that ordinary little bedroom where an ordinary Christian is saying his prayers."

So, God is at work prompting us, encouraging us, and even when we don't know what to pray - praying through us, as seen in Romans 8:26.  It is God simultaneously doing the praying in me, receiving the prayer and in that exchange agreed to in me, inviting me into the Christ life of the redeemed. 

What does all of this have to do with worship?  In a simple statement:  God actively prompts, receives, and perfects our worship.  Hallelujah!  mjm