Why I Worship

I have been thinking about why I have kinda left this blog undone.  There are two main reasons: 1) Lack of motivation; 2) Lack of direction.  Those two reasons will kill anything that one sets out to do.  Anyway, I have been praying about this and contemplating/reminding myself why I started this thing in the first place.  I wanted to impart some knowledge and insights about worship to younger brothers and sisters in Christ.

So to start this thing back up I wanted to talk about three reasons why I worship.

1. I worship God because He has revealed part of Himself to us.  It would be impossible to worship anything without an experience with it.  Follow the course of human history and man has been directed in worship of something because it experienced something that it could not understand.  Zeus, Ra, Isis, Osiris (gods/goddesses of lightning, sun, moon, death respectively; also all were crafted with human characteristics) all are experienced by man and so is Jehovah God (cf. Romans 1:18-21). 
2. I worship because God loves me and loves me in a way that I cannot even love myself.  His love for me transcends space and time and my own personal depravity.  I look at the world and see the horror of man and yet see the greater grace of God.  The Heavenly Father watches over His children and offers us invitations to sit at His table and to be free to love on Him.  Once I can receive his love worship comes naturally.  
3. I worship God because I have access to Him through Christ.  God gave His law to the Children of Israel, but they hoarded it and did not live it.  His law was to grant them prosperity and fullness of life but because of our inability to keep it.  God sent Jesus to fulfill the expectation of the law which was death.  Through His life, Christ kept the law and with his death and spilled blood he fulfilled the law.  I have freedom to worship and to chase after Him.

Till next time,

Ernest

All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

(Mat 11:27 ESV)