Learning to Worship
Day 217
You were created to worship God. Worship means to honor or
reverence; to regard with great or extravagant respect or devotion
(Merriam-Webster). Do these words describe your response to God?
Dr. Ray Pritchard says, “I would define worship in the broadest
sense as the soul’s response to God. It is anything that I do in my soul where
I am truly aware of my heavenly Father, and I am turning to Him in the time of
need. It might be with joy. It might be with praise. But very often it’s with a
broken heart.
“I think that those moments when you have lost someone very
precious to you, God is honored when deep inside you turn to Him and cry out, ‘Oh
God, oh Lord, You are awesome. Your ways are beyond finding out. Lord, I do not
understand, but I bow before You because You are an awesome God.’ That to me is
worship.”
Hezekiah was a king who trusted God with wholehearted
devotion both in good times and in bad. The Bible records that “there was no
one like him among all the kings to Judah, either before him or after him” (2
Kings 18:5). Even in the midst of bitter tears, Hezekiah approached God with a
reverent, worshipful heart, and God heard his prayer: “’ Remember, O Lord, how
I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have
done what is good in your eyes.’ And Hezekiah wept bitterly” (2 Kings 20:3).
O Lord, my heart cries
out to You. I worship You with reverence. You are Lord of all. Amen.
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