Day 217 - Learning to Worship You were created to worship God. Worship means to honor or reverence; to regard with great or extravagant respect or devotion (Merriam-Webster). Do these words describe your response to God? Dr. Ray Pritchard says, “I would define worship in the broadest sense as the soul’s response to God. It is anything that I do in my soul where I am truly aware of my heavenly Father, and I am turning to Him in the time of need. It might be with joy. It might be with praise. But very often it’s with a broken heart. "I think that in those moments when you have lost someone very precious to you, God is honored when deep inside you turn to Him and cry out, ‘Oh God, oh Lord, You are awesome. Your ways are beyond finding out. Lord, I do not understand, but I bow before You because You are an awesome God.’ That to me is worship.” Hezekiah was a king who trusted God with wholehearted devotion both in good times and in bad. The Bible records that “there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him” (2 Kings 18:5). Even in the midst of bitter tears, Hezekiah approached God with a reverent, worshipful heart, and God heard his prayer: “‘Remember, O Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.’ And Hezekiah wept bitterly” (2 Kings 20:3). O Lord God, my heart cries out to You. I worship You with reverence. You are Lord of all. Amen.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:31:59 +0000
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