IS IT RIGHT TO WORSHIP JESUS? I am hearing time and time again from well known maverick authors and conference speakers that we are not to worship Jesus because it is nowhere indicated in Scripture. Rather, we are just to adopt and copy Jesus philosophy of self-actualization where we just trust our own own inner human voice as Jesus trusted His. The end result is that we are not called to trust Jesus voice, but our own. We are not, according to their line of thought, to worship Jesus OR to believe in or on Him. But, here is the problem with their position. Its just not accurate. At all. Jesus was frequently worshipped during His incarnation. Jesus never discouraged it, and in fact seemed to always respond to such worship favorably by immediately healing the sick or exorcising devils. Worship was a common response to coming into His presence. If these authors and conference speakers believe worshipping Jesus is primitive and passé, then it just might be that they havent yet experienced the awe-inducing presence of Jesus. In Matthew 8:1-4, a leper worships Jesus and asks for healing. Jesus gladly heals the leper. A certain ruler came and worshipped Jesus in Matthew 9:18-26 and asks for his daughter to be healed. Jesus immediately goes and heals her. In Matthew 14:23, after walking on water, the disciples worshipped Jesus as the Son of God. In Matthew 15:21-28, a woman of Canaan came and worshipped Jesus as Lord, thereafter asking Him to exorcise a demon from her daughter, which He then did. In Matthew 28:9, the disciples worshipped Him at His feet when they saw Jesus had resurrected. Im Mark 5:6, even the Gadarene demoniac worshipped Jesus when he saw him from afar. In Luke 24:52, as Jesus was ascending to heaven, all his disciples worshipped Him. In John 9:38, the man born blind who Jesus healed, worshipped Him as the Son of God. Finally, the wise men who saw Jesus as a mere baby even intuitively knew to worship Him. Mathew 2:9-11. Yet, self-avowed wise men of today repeatedly claim otherwise. They assert that we are NOT to worship Jesus. Thats kind of sad-- for them. The New Testament says we have not because we ask not, OR we have not because we ask from wrong motives, OR we have not because we believe not. But, perhaps, the underlying problem is really one of worship. We have not, we ask not, we believe not-- all just ultimately because we worship Him not. A failure to worship Jesus simply comes from a failure to rightly recognize and respond to His presence. Failure to worship Jesus is proof that we really just dont believe He is both divine and divinely present.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 20:37:34 +0000
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