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.