If someone were to ask you today why you worship God would you know how to answer?
If we are honest most of us would stutter or hmm and haw because we would either not have thought about it or we would be trying to think what the "expected" or "right" answer is.
Probably we all worship God for different reasons because worship is a very personal thing.
Perhaps because we feel so blessed,
or we feel so thankful,
or we feel that God has rescued us from a broken life,
or etc......
However if we ask a Theologian what answer would we get?
Well those who know me well will know that I can easily do that because my eldest son is a Theologian, so I did and this is what he said
"To respond with thanksgiving for God's grace to us in Christ"
Jonathan Black
APOSTOLIC THEOLOGY BLOG
For myself I have always equated worship with glorifying God and so I thought of the Catechism I learnt growing up in the Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland.
Q: What is man's chief end?
A: Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever
But I think in plain terms I would just have said because
We see this in Job 36 v 26
APOSTOLIC THEOLOGY BLOG
For myself I have always equated worship with glorifying God and so I thought of the Catechism I learnt growing up in the Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland.
Q: What is man's chief end?
A: Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever
But I think in plain terms I would just have said because
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We see this in Job 36 v 26
Taking it in context of the passage around the verse we see that it is voiced by one of Job's friends.
Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty
24 “Remember to magnify His work,
Of which men have sung.
25 Everyone has seen it;
Man looks on it from afar.
Of which men have sung.
25 Everyone has seen it;
Man looks on it from afar.
26 “Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him;
Nor can the number of His years be discovered.
27 For He draws up drops of water,
Which distill as rain from the mist,
28 Which the clouds drop down
And pour abundantly on man.
29 Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds,
The thunder from His canopy?
30 Look, He scatters His light upon it,
And covers the depths of the sea.
31 For by these He judges the peoples;
He gives food in abundance.
32 He covers His hands with lightning,
And commands it to strike.
33 His thunder declares it,
The cattle also, concerning the rising storm.
Nor can the number of His years be discovered.
27 For He draws up drops of water,
Which distill as rain from the mist,
28 Which the clouds drop down
And pour abundantly on man.
29 Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds,
The thunder from His canopy?
30 Look, He scatters His light upon it,
And covers the depths of the sea.
31 For by these He judges the peoples;
He gives food in abundance.
32 He covers His hands with lightning,
And commands it to strike.
33 His thunder declares it,
The cattle also, concerning the rising storm.
