Learning to Tremble
Lev 10:1-3
Worship of God is a very serious business. In many ways, we have lost our reverence, our respect for sovereignty. Let's look into proper court etiquette.
John 4:
People have always sought the rules concerning worship. To whom, where and how are common questions around the world and in every generation. Fortunately, Jesus answered these questions in John 4. The woman at the well was looking for a place. Jesus said she should have been looking for a person.
Worship is not about the physical it is about the spiritual. You cannot worship enough in the physical to spread into the spiritual. But when you worship in the spiritual it will manifest itself in the physical.
Worship happens when a person takes delight in what God is doing in their life and the life of others.
Throughout Scripture we are commanded by God to come into His presence.
Heb 4:16 - Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
I think many times instead of coming boldly into His presence we come arrogantly… with a sense of entitlement (more on that in later posts).
Jesus described His generation: They draw close to me with their lips but their hearts are far from me…
You see, worship comes from the heart.
Look at Exodus 19:11-16. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people...
So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes... Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.
What we notice is; coming into the presence of God requires something… We have forgotten how to tremble...
God invites us near but continually announces ‘I will be regarded as holy by those who come near."
Worship of God is a very serious business. In many ways, we have lost our reverence, our respect for sovereignty. Let's look into proper court etiquette.
John 4:
People have always sought the rules concerning worship. To whom, where and how are common questions around the world and in every generation. Fortunately, Jesus answered these questions in John 4. The woman at the well was looking for a place. Jesus said she should have been looking for a person.
Worship is not about the physical it is about the spiritual. You cannot worship enough in the physical to spread into the spiritual. But when you worship in the spiritual it will manifest itself in the physical.
Worship happens when a person takes delight in what God is doing in their life and the life of others.
Throughout Scripture we are commanded by God to come into His presence.
Heb 4:16 - Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
I think many times instead of coming boldly into His presence we come arrogantly… with a sense of entitlement (more on that in later posts).
Jesus described His generation: They draw close to me with their lips but their hearts are far from me…
You see, worship comes from the heart.
Look at Exodus 19:11-16. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people...
So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes... Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled.
What we notice is; coming into the presence of God requires something… We have forgotten how to tremble...
God invites us near but continually announces ‘I will be regarded as holy by those who come near."
