In true worship, when we draw near to God with our lips and our hearts, we begin to see who we worship.
I mean we already know God and “see” him, but now we see more clearly.
In worship, God doesn’t grow bigger or greater but as the fog of earthly thinking clears away in our hearts and minds, we see him as bigger and greater than before.
In true worship God’s greatness is on display and we allow him to convince us of his greatness as we bow before him.
(Isaiah 29:13 NCV) The Lord says: “These people say they love me; they show honor to me with words, but their hearts are far from me. The honor they show me is nothing but human rules.”
Israel, at the time of Isaiah’s writing, honored God but only with their words.
And please note what is so critical to this truth: Because they kept their hearts from God, they were tied and bound by their humanity. They could only go as far as human rules and human thought would take them.
Worshiping God with our lips and our hearts, allowing God to draw our hearts to him, we allow God to bring us before his throne, before eternity and infinity, into the presence of God himself, not into the presence of what a man or a woman figures God to be.
