Response (Daily Devotional)

Welcome friends, thank you for making the time to study God’s word together with us. We will be talking about worship, worship which is such an important part of a believer’s life. What is worship? There are a couple of words in the bible that we can look at. In the Hebrew, there is the word called ‘shachah’, it means to prostrate, bow down, fall down flat, revere, beseech; that is worship. There is another Greek word, ‘proskyneo’ which means to kiss the hand, to prostrate, to adore and revere. Here is the picture of worship that we get from the word of God. We honor God or give Him reverence, we even bow down before Him, we fall down flat before Him and not just that, there is this other description which says to kiss the hand and that involves affection. The next term there was ‘adore’, so all of this is a part of worship, the way we worship, honor Him, draw near to Him, we bow down before Him, we adore Him. Worship is that act of reverence and adoration which is directed towards God and in worship, we have many expressions of gratitude and devotion unto God and this is very important in our relationship with Him. So, a few key things about worship that we may want to consider are that worship is a response to God’s worth ship. In other words, God is so worthy, He is great and we can keep talking about His nature, His characteristics, His power and all of these things reveal that God is so worthy and every time we look at Him, we behold Him, we encounter Him in our personal lives and taste of His goodness, we recognize that God is worthy. Even when we go through challenges, we know that He is a God who is good and is for us and He is a mighty God who will take us and lead us to green pastures and so, God is always worthy, no matter what we are going through, good or bad, God is worthy. So, worship is a response to the worth ship of God. God’s worth never changes and thereby, our worship shouldn’t cease. Our worship can be continual because God continues to be worthy. The psalmist put it beautifully in Psalm chapter 95, verses 6 and 7, ‘Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand.’ When we recognize who God is and who we are, our response, the way the psalmist writes, worship and bow down and kneel before, there are all these expressions of reverence, adoration. So, worship is our expressing who God is. Once we recognize God’s worth ship is what we must recognize and that begs for a response and that is our worship. Let’s pray together, Heavenly Father, we thank you for who you are, you are glorious, you are worthy. Even now, we declare you are worthy of all honor, all praise, all glory, be exalted, in Jesus’s name we pray, Amen.

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