God is Good, Great and Holy
Worshipping God is a fairly simple concept. To worship someone who did so much for us, to love Him with everything we have and to immerse ourselves in His goodness.
In essence, worshipping God is simply our natural response to what He has done in our lives. Our natural response to His goodness, His greatness and His holiness.
Although you can’t create a simple formula for worship that would cover every aspect of worship I do believe that there are certain things that should be a part of worship. Last night, at a Worship Workshop held at Kloof Baptist Church, Trevor Wood explained so clearly the following:
Thanksgiving is our response to His goodness
Praise is our response to His greatness
Worship is our response to His holiness
To expand on this a bit more, Psalm 100 asks us to go into God’s presence with thanksgiving. A heart of thanks towards what God has done in our lives helps us to focus our lives on God. As we see how God has been there for us and how good He has been to us we begin to make a move toward responding to His greatness.
His greatness is seen in our lives. In the way He works in our lives. The bible is full of stories and accounts of God’s greatness. We see greatness in His wisdom and strength as He worked through the prophets in the Old Testament. The New Testament is full of miracle stories as God displayed His power over sin, disease and deformity. God is great! We should praise His name because of it.
Focusing on God’s person is the next step. His greatness leads us to contemplate His being. Why would this great God care about mankind, why would He sacrifice His own son for us and how do I respond to the truth that He does care and He does love me.
There is a song that goes like this:
When I look into Your holiness
When I gaze into Your loveliness
When all things that surround become shadows
In the light of You
When I’ve found the joy of reaching Your heart
When my will become enthroned in Your love
When all things that suround become shadows
In the light of You
I worship You I worship You
The reason I live is to worship You
As we look into the personality and holiness of God our natural response of to worship Him.
