In worship, our cries meet up with the cry of God’s heart for His people - it's who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That's the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before Him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship Him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration.
A.W.Tozer made a statement that worship is "the missing jewel of the evangelical churches." Such an evaluation concerning worship is not simply negative; it seeks repentance and reformation in the ways where we have gone astray. Chuck Swindoll wrote a great article on Tozer's statement as he addressed the Associated Gospel Churches - check it out and enjoy...
We need to remember that Love is not the root but only the branches. The root is worship.
Without it, the busyness of life and the distractions of our minds will take down the strongest of us no matter how sturdy we look on the outside.
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