Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Searching for God With All Our Hearts- This Is Worship

Worship-  How do you give God your attention?

Jer 29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, SAITH THE LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Jer 29:12  Then shall ye CALL UPON ME, and ye shall go and PRAY UNTO ME, and I will hearken unto you.
Jer 29:13  And ye shall SEEK ME, and FIND ME, when ye shall SEARCH FOR ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART.

We must call upon God.
We must pray unto God.
We must seek God and find Him by SEARCH for GOD with ALL OUR HEART.

As I asked yesterday, can you worship something without giving it your attention? The answer is a resounding NO!

If we are searching for God with all our heart then we are a most assuredly giving God our attention- this is a form of WORSHIP.

We've been duped into thinking that worship is spending time simply listening to someone speak about God for an hour. We actually call it the Worship Hour.  And I'm NOT saying it's NOT worship, it very well could be true worship, but if that's ALL the attention we're giving God- an hour of worship- then we are NOT really worshipping Him at all, we're pretending and most likely deceiving ourselves into believing it's acceptable. It's not acceptable.

How often should you worship God? Should you truly only worship for a single hour every week?

Mat_2:2  Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.

The three wise men from the east who came to see the newly born Savior went to WORSHIP Him. Did they wait for the worship hour? No. And I'm not being facetious, I mean it. The Jewish people worshipped at the temple on the Sabbath weekly. It's quite possible that some people only worshipped then- like the worship hour today, I don't know.  I do know they set the ENTIRE day aside for God, a FULL day to honor Him and going to the temple or synagogues to hear the word of God was only a small part of that day of worship.  Going back to the wise men, they didn't wait for the Sabbath, and they didn't wait for a worship hour, they went to the Savior expressly to worship Him and worship Him they did. They gave Him their FULL attention! They honored Him!

More tomorrow on this, by the grace of our GOD!

 In Jesus' name.

Amen.



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