(39) The Heart of Worship is Active Faith

(Note: This is part of a continuing series of posts on The Heart of Worship & Psalm 95)

Today, if you would hear His voice,

Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,

As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

when your fathers tested Me, They tried Me,

though they had seen My work.

The people of Israel had seen great demonstrations of God’s power, protection, and provision when He delivered them from Egypt and yet, they still doubted Him. They still questioned His love and faithfulness. They hardened their hearts. They tested God there in the wilderness. They demanded that He provide water for them to prove Himself to them. They withheld worship because God did not act the way they wanted in their time.

The genuine worshiper is one who worships from a heart of belief in God for who He is. When we truly worship God, thinking about and declaring the greatness of God it will lead to greater trust. Worship leads to trust, trust leads to worship. The opposite of worship is unbelief.

Here are some very important truths we need to grasp. When we stop believing God we stop worshiping. When we stop acting upon God’s Word we stop worshiping. When we chose our way rather than God’s, we stop worshiping. When we put our desires before God’s, we stop worshiping. When we demand that God do things our way or that He make others follow our wishes, we stop worshiping. When our worship is dependant on our circumstances, we have stopped worshiping.

We cease to worship God when we fail to trust Him for guidance and provision, when we demand that God do something we desire in order to prove He is worthy of worship or before we will choose to worship.

Worship involves seeing God for who He is and what He has done, recognizing how He operates, and facing life from that understanding. The heart of worship is a heart of active faith, confidence, and trust in God.

Soli Deo Gloria


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