To Believe Is to Worship

Believing in Him is worshiping Him with each breath and heartbeat.

January’s Awakening, Day 8

To believe God is to worship God.

 —Martin Luther  

The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise God.

 —Thomas Merton

We should dedicate ourselves to becoming in this life the most perfect worshipers of God we can possibly be, as we hope to be through all eternity.

 —Brother Lawrence 

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness. Psalm 29:2 NIV

Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”  Matthew 4:10 NIV  

            We were created by God to worship God. That is the simple yet most profound truth. The angels were also created by God to worship and serve Him, but they are of a different created order, being spirit, not physical beings. We are not forced nor coerced to worship as God wants us to come willingly to worship and commune with Him. Our Creator wants to be intimately involved in our lives and He wants us to be intimately and spiritually connected to Him. Worship connects us to Him as it is our spirit actively reaching out to Him, praising Him for who He is and what He has already done for us. For the Christian believer, the practice of worshiping God should be as essential as breathing in and breathing out.