Sunday mornings are times when many will be going to places they call churches; to worship they know not what. Believers call this time “morning worship,” and know that worship should be the activity of the inward man, the believing sinner. Is not the creator of heaven and earth worthy of worship? Worship is ascribing worth to God; inward religious honor where one thinks on, trusts to, loves and fears God because of His infinite excellency, mercy, power, wisdom, love and grace. I trust we have come into His house and gathered in His name for one and only one purpose, to worship Him. Worship is an act of faith. The first recorded act of faith in Holy Scripture is Abel’s worship, “By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice…” Worship cannot be manufactured, nor worked up. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ seeks worshippers whom He calls ‘true worshippers,’ who worship Him in “spirit and truth.” This seeking works from both, He seeks true worshippers, and true worshippers seek Him. “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? (Psalm 42:1-2) Now that is the spirit of true worship. The Psalmist’s entire being went after his God, his will, affections, emotions and all that was in him. Psalm 121 was designed to be sung with worship in mind. Verse one sings, “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.” The sacred band of pilgrims had traveled long and hard. They sung this Psalm with the view of the mountains of Jerusalem in sight. Their long wished-for destination, the mountains of Jerusalem, their place of worship had come into view. In the middle of the Psalm there stands the Lord as the “keeper” of Israel, His Church. He had kept them through their long journey and had neither “slumbered nor slept” and they give Him praise, “My help cometh from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.” Following, in Psalm 122, verse 1 they sing, “I was glad when they said unto me, ‘Let us go into the house of the Lord.’” This they sang when they had reached the gates of Jerusalem and stopped for the purpose of forming in order for the solemn procession into the Sanctuary to worship. What will be the object of our worship? Will it be the Lamb of God in the midst of the throne? Or will you worship streets of gold, or walls of Jasper, or crowns marked with luster and wearers of them? Will your song be like “the noise of many waters and like great thunder” as you worship Him who is worthy? John said in Revelation 5:6, “I looked, and lo, a Lamb”; to teach us that the very first and chief object of attraction is the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world, the Lord Jesus, our most blessed Redeemer. “We have come into His house and gathered in His name to worship Him— Worship Him, Christ the LORD!
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