Fully Seeking the Lord We Adore

    By A. W. Tozer

    0 come, let us worship and bow down. . . .Psalm 95:6

            An old creed says that we worship one God, the
    Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth and of all
    things visible and invisible.

            If we could set forth all of God's attributes and
    tell all that He is, we would fall on our knees in adoring
    worship.

            The Bible tells us that God dwells in light that is
    unapproachable, whom no man can see or has seen, and
    whom no man can see and live.

            It says that God is holy and eternal and omnipotent
    and omniscient and sovereign, and that He has a thousand
    sovereign attributes.  And all of these should humble us and
    bring us down!

            I have come to believe that no worship is wholly pleasing
    to God until there is nothing in us displeasing to God.  If there is
    anything within me that does not worship God, then there is
    nothing in me that worships God perfectly.

            Note that I am not saying that God must have a perfection
    of worship or He will not accept any worship at all.  I would not
    go so far; if I did, I would rule myself out.  But, I do say that the
    ideal God sets before us is to worship as near to perfectly as we
    can.  Faith and love and obedience and loyalty and high conduct
    of life all of these must be taken as burnt offerings and offered to
    God!

            True worship seeks union with its beloved, and an active effort to close the gap between the heart and the God it adores is worship at its best!

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    Yours in Christ,
    Paul N. F.