Psalm 95:6–"Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us knell before the Lord, our Maker!"
Reverence, the sincere act of offering honor and adoration, is an aspiration that we have perhaps lost as a people. Our entertainment barely bats its eyes to criticize or parody any form of reverence and is even apt to deface God Himself if it can be construed as some joke. But this is, in the end, a lie told to us by the father of lies, Satan. It is a lie that deceives into believing that we are no longer creatures created by the Holy Lord, but that we are, in fact, creators of our own selves. Again, this is a lie.
The truth is that we are creatures that have been created by God Himself. This truth informs everyone one of our decisions and scenarios in life, whether we accept it in belief or not. It is, it turns out, inescapable. Yet much of our lives is predicated upon the deceptions of pride and vanity so that our time is expelled on uselessness, meaninglessness, and shallow superficiality. But it was never meant to be so!
God has ordained that we bow before Him in humble praise and adoration. This is not for His benefit, but for ours. Humans are fueled by offering worship just as cars run on gasoline. It is important, then, that we constantly remind ourselves of this truth so that we can run at optimum performance by putting in the 'right' fuel, which turns out to be a steady diet of reverently praising the Holy Lord Almighty,
Let us then always keep this focus before us and take seriously the call to worship in our lives.
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