WORSHIP

WORSHIP

... I would fain be in company with you on a higher and more blessed subject. I have been much interested in the subject of worship. In heaven there will be nothing to distract us from full concentration of heart and mind on God, as manifested to us in Christ Jesus and by Him. As merely a recipient, however inconceivable and unaccountable the favour bestowed on me, I am not necessarily a worshipper, I am a receiver; and my thanksgiving truly ought to be in keeping therewith; but when I worship, the Object of my worship detains my heart because it controls it. God in His own distinct blessedness, as known to me, engages and rivets my heart and mind. This is, I think, very uncommon in meetings nowadays, though we through His grace may often, as we walk along, be so attracted by His own essential blessedness that we stop, and in deep reverence of soul exclaim, ‘Glory be to God’. This, so far, is worship, but I feel it cannot be truly said unless by one who feels himself adoringly absorbed with Him, as One from whom he is not expecting to receive, because he has received everything. Oh, how we should worship if our hearts were simply engaged with Him. While oneself is one’s object, even for the highest blessing, one is not free to make Another — the Blesser — one’s Object. Surely you and I may feel that it is very happy work to seek to understand this worship for ourselves, and as we know it, to convey our knowledge, as He permits us, to others of His dear people. We all here remember you in true affection.