Due to denominational error, the Lord’s people have stressed hard the necessity to worship the Lord according to the pattern of the New Testament, and rightly so (1 Corinthians 4:6). There is the how, but what about the why?
To answer this with a wave of the hand and grunt, “Because it is commanded,” admits a spiritual ignorance that is not pretty. We respond to God just because He says so? Really?
Humanity has a hunger for God. We don’t just wonder; we ache for His fellowship. To have His attention is a delight. To act like the only relevance that we have toward God is a rule book calls into question our very understanding of what we call God Whom we worship.
The Word of God is the one true revelation we have, but what it reveals is much more than commands. Psalm 8 begins and ends with what can be said is a call to worship, “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!” (v. 1 NKJV). Revelation 4 also reveals the magnificence of God.
The Name is excellent because the One so called is excellent. His glory fills creation because God is magnificent. “…Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!” (Isaiah 6:3). To contemplate God in spirit and truth drives us to our knees in fear, amazement, breathless wonder and humble realization that we get to know Him (Job 42:5-6).
Why worship God? Because He is God!
[Editor’s Note: Because He is God, we worship Him and do so in His own appointed way. This is the essence of John 4:23-24, which reads, “…True worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” It’s not a question of worshipping God either in spirit or in truth. It’s both! ~ Louis Rushmore, Editor]
