Last Sunday we had our first Godsong. It was a joy leading musician-worshippers from the ages of 8 to 45 and learning together how to worship the Father. Godsong’s purpose is to identify and train musicians and worship leaders in the church. To equip these musicians to lead by the Spirit, under the word, and for the glory of the Father. This month at Godsong, we took an in-depth look at Why We Worship.
We worship God because He is our Creator. Good, beautiful and strong beyond measure.
Worship is about God first. He created us. We are His workmanship. Ephesians 2:10 – “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” He always good, exquisitely beautiful, and infinitely strong. He is more beautiful than the most beautiful, exquisite thing you have ever seen. There is nothing that He cannot move or do. The moon and the stars obey Him.
He holds us in existence and loves us with an everlasting love.
Not only did He create us, he holds us in existence. Every breath, every heartbeat is a gift from Him. He looks after us. He never leaves us or forsakes us. He isn’t some far off God that created us, set us into being, and then just left us. He is intimately involved and invested in our lives. He has a good and perfect plan for your life. And he loves you. Not just a small dash of love. 1 John 3:1 talks about God lavishing love upon His. An unquenchable love. A love that invites us to be called His children. I just became a father for the first time and I know a little bit now about how much a father loves his children. But God does everything fully, perfectly. His love is wider, deeper, higher than you can ever imagine.
He has eternally demonstrated the depth of this love for us through dying on the cross. Saving us from the destructive power of sin and restoring us to right relationship with Him and gifting us with life unquenchable.
He has shown us the greatest act of love by dieing for us. If you were the only person who ever lived, Jesus would have died for you. We worship Him because of His mercy and clearly demonstrated love. He bled, sweat and died for you.
We worship Him because He saved us from ourselves. Sin eats away at our souls. It corrupts our whole being and inevitably makes us miserable and alone. When Jesus died he broke the power of sin and death over our lives. He removed the penalty of our sins and gave us His Spirit, so that we can live changed, redeemed lives. We no longer need to die. We instead get to spend eternity in paradise with God. And now we are free to enter into relationship with God free of guilt and shame. We can come boldly to Him.
We were chosen that might be for the praise of His glorious grace (Eph 1).
We worship God because He chose us. God adopted us into His family. He went into the earthly orphanage and chose you as His own. And He chose you so that you could share in his glory and love. That you could see how glorious and magnificent are His ways, and that you could enjoy Him forever (The Westminister Catechism).
We will spend eternity worshipping Him with the angels (Rev 5:13).
In the book of revelation we see a picture of heaven and of every creature on earth praise God and giving Him glory forever. Paul E. Billheimer wrote that, “Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth.”
We are called to worship Him now together with the saints (Col 3:16, Heb 12:28).
The scriptures instruct us and inspire us to worship God. It tells us to passionately sing His praises, to awaken the dawn with our worship (Psalm 57). It is what we were made for. It is what we will spend eternity doing. It is the only thing that will fulfill us. God is worthy of our praises. When we worship together with the family of God we bring the kingdom of heaven to earth. We become the unified bride of Christ. We enter into the story of all creation – the story of everything, which is the story of God’s boundless glory.
