The Blessedness of Worship
As I have learnt from God of Him and His Word, I have come
to realize how marvelously and intricately the whole Word of God is
inter-related and inter-connected, every part supplementing and supporting the
rest. As we delve deeper into God’s Word, the beauty of this marvelous
intricacy adds further credence that it indeed is the Word of God, and fills
our hearts even more with worship and adoration for Him.
The immediately previous section, “The Imperativeness of
Worship” closed anticipating why God desires worship. Some might assume that
God is an egoist who likes to see people ‘blow His trumpet’ for Him; but that
is not the case at all. A cause-and-effect relationship is applicable in the life
of every Born Again Believer i.e. every child of God through repentance of sins
and Faith in Christ Jesus (John 1:12-13); it is through this cause-and-effect
relationship that God leads the worshiper, worshiping God in spirit and truth,
onto an ever-rising spiral of blessedness, not only for eternity in heaven but
even for our present life here on earth.
During His earthly ministry, the Lord Jesus said: “Heaven
and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away” (Matthew
24:35); i.e. the Lord’s Words are infallible, incontrovertible, irrevocable and
absolute; they will always stand true, no matter what and at any cost. With
this in mind, look at another statement of our Lord Jesus: “…And remember
the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to
receive" (Acts 20:35).
In Lord Jesus’ own words, there is blessedness in both
receiving as well as giving; nevertheless, the Lord says that it is more
blessed to give than to receive.
We pray to receive from God; prayer is to ask and receive
from God; but in worship, we give to the Lord – we give thanks, we give glory,
we give adoration, we give honor, we give respect and awe, we give diligence
and obedience to His Word. Prayer is all about receiving and worship is all about
giving; hence, although there is blessedness in both praying and worshiping,
but to worship is more blessed than to pray.
We will look into some examples from God’s Word to
illustrate and understand the cause-and-effect relationship and the blessedness
of giving to God, ahead.
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