Quote:
Originally Posted by Friedel
Thought all might enjoy this quote:
“… We were created, and after the fall redeemed, that we might be worshipers of the Most High God. The reason God made man in His image was that he might appreciate God and admire and adore and worship Him. Worship means ‘to feel in the heart.’ A person who merely goes through the form and doesn’t feel anything is not worshiping. Only the Holy Spirit can enable a fallen man to worship God acceptably.
“Now because we were created to worship, worship is the normal employment of moral beings … not something stuck on or added. It is something that is built into human nature. Worship is the one shining gem that is lost to the modern church, and I believe that we ought to search for this until we find it.”From A.W. Tozer in “Worship: The Missing Jewel in the Evangelical Church.”
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I hate to say it, but my reading of the account in Genesis did not involve man admiring, adoring, or worshipping God. It did involve being put in charge of the created earth. It did involve a time with God, but that time was not described. I put this with the declaration that the highest goal of man is to . . . . You know the one. It is lofty. It sounds very spiritual. But I just cannot find where that is what Jesus required of us. Or God in general (in the OT) for that matter.
And based on the amount of time that the children of Israel were required to spend worshipping and sacrificing to God out of the year, those pathetic, mooing Christians that only go for one to one-and-a-half hours each week get in more worship time than the Jews likely did (at least prior to the development of the synagogues).
I think that Tozer is right to say that the manner of worship we often engage in is not very satisfying (to God — although likely to man or we wouldn't do it).