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Theme of the Week: Worship: On Whose Terms?
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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Key Bible Verse: Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker Psalm 95:6.Bonus Reading:Amos 5:21-24
As a boy I heard the Don McNeil Breakfast Club on radio, then roughly equivalent to television's more recent Today show.
At one point every day Don would say, "It's prayer time around the breakfast table." As soft organ music rose in the background, Don would continue, "and now, each in his own words, each in his own way, bow your heads and let us pray." It's moving to recall this being included on a secular nationwide program.
And yet there was something about Don McNeil's invitation to worship that was much more American than scriptural. We have a national disposition to emphasize our right to worship in our own way. I'm grateful for that freedom, of course. But it misses an essential fact about biblical worship: it is on God's terms, not ours. [Today's Key Bible Verse] summarily calls us to bow down and kneel before this One whose creatures we are. And make no mistake, the call to bowing and kneeling refers to more than mere bodily posture. It focuses the surrender of our will and way to him. It means we're granting supreme authority to God; that in worship and life we're giving up our will in favor of his.
—Jack Hayford in The Heart of Praise
My Response: When I come into God's presence, am I so filled with my own words that I can't hear God speaking?
Thought to Apply: To worship our God sincerely we must evermore begin by hearkening to his voice, and by giving ear to what he commands us.—John Calvin
Adapted from The Heart of Praise (v) by permission.
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Keep me, God, from a presumptuous stance in Your majestic presence, but grant me a humble confidence based on Your sacrificial love.
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