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.