Sunday August 12, 2012
"So to all the people of the land and to the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months these seventy years, was it actually for me that you fasted?" Zechariah 7:5
When I read Zechariah 7, I think about Sunday morning service and meditate on why is it that I worship. If you were asked the question, why do you worship, what would be your answer? Many of us might say; I like the music, I like the teaching or I like to be with other believers, etc. Those are all good but I wonder if we have missed the whole point if we use "I" as part of the answer. That's how the people in Zechariah's time were. They lived for themselves 364 days a year and then one day a year they would go and fast in order to fulfill their "religious duty." God does call them out on it by asking the people "…did you really fast for Me?" If you have already attended worship service today or if you will be going to a worship service, the question still is, why do you worship? May it be to lift up the Lord and to worship Him only? May it not be about me; May it not be a ritual or religious thing. Let it be a way to draw us closer to God and worship Him because He is worthy of all honor, all worship and of all praise.
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness. Psalm 29:2
Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. Psalm 95:6
Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.'" Luke 4:8
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." John 4:24
Dave
Heb 4:16
