On Worship
He demands our worship, our obedience, our prostration. Do we suppose that they can do Him any good, or fear, like the chorus in Milton, that human irreverence can bring about “His glory’s diminution”? A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word “darkness” on the walls of his cell.
But God wills our good, and our good is to love Him (with that responsive love proper to creatures) and to love Him we must know Him: and if we know Him, we shall in fact fall on our faces. If we do not, that only shows that what we are trying to love is not yet God—though it may be the nearest approximation to God which our thought and fantasy can attain.
Worship is our response to God’s call. How we respond will be based on how well we know God. To know God, we must seek him each day and search for him in every thing we experience. When we truly find and know God, we must submit to God’s will and guidance.
So, it is knowledge put into action that constitutes true worship. And true worship will yield a humility that causes us to fall to our knees and on our faces out of awe, respect and overwhelming love for God. Until that point of humility and awe, we may be on the right path, but have yet to arrive at the full knowledge of the true God of love.
In humility,
Z gardener
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