Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “ ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’ who was, and is, and is to come.”
Revelation 4:8 NIV
Shortly after my daughter Andrieka and I returned to South Africa for compassion leave, I was approached to share my testimony with a group of about thirty people. I repeated a phrase that a pastor in Harare had said in January 1996. “What God desires for you is the highest, best possible life you could ever imagine, without blowing any fuses.” He made the statement only a few months after his daughter who had been a pioneer missionary was killed by a buffalo, while she was on honeymoon.
I had come across the importance of Worship where I studied at a Bible institute. I only had a few opportunities over the next twenty years to share about this very important aspect to groups of people, but the Lord very graciously gave me one on one conversations, where I could share.
Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshipping …, when you get into work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated with you. —OSWALD CHAMBERS
Worshipping God is the only thing that the Four Living Creatures in Revelation are doing since the time that they were created, and that is all they will be doing for eternity.
We sometimes feel frustrated because we are not spending enough time with God. This is a healthy frustration provided that we get around to break the pattern, and make time for Him.
How do I worship God?
The first thing that I need to do is realize that worship is all about God. I want to get to the place where I am telling God how wonderful He is instead of focusing on all the matters that I want to trust Him for.
Worship then brings me to the place where I can say like David “One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.” (Psalms 27:4 NIV.)
It came as a surprise to me one day that David was not seeing God in the earthly temple, because it had not been built yet. David was seeing God in His Heavenly temple, and He was connecting with God through worship.
It is this connecting with God through worship that has been the most important factor in helping me overcome all my adversity, and transformed my devotional time from priority into pleasure. Religion was a dominant force in the early part of my life, but that was replaced by a relationship with my God.
If you ask someone to do a favor for someone else, then they will evaluate the situation and then decide whether or not they will do it, but if you ask a guy to do something for his girlfriend, you can even take advantage of him because he has lost all common sense. Nothing can stand in his way.
In a very similar sense we need to prioritize worship so that we “fall in love” with God.
He is worthy of all our worship.
Let nothing stand in your way.
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