Radical Worship – George H. Warnock
True
worship ought always be 24 hours in the day if we are true worshippers. “Worship” that is “in Spirit and in Truth”
must be ongoing. It’s not just something
you do. It’s something you become, a
worshipper. I was invited to a gathering
one time, where their brochure announced there would be a worship leader
demonstrating radical worship. I did not
go. I am sure I would have walked out if
I had gone.
But
the term “radical worship” did cause me to think of a couple of instances in
the Bible which I would describe as being radical worship. Job, a righteous man, afflicted by Satan with
God’s permission so that he lost almost everything, and was afflicted with a
very severe skin disease and sat in a pile of ashes, worshipping God. I would call that very radical. Or Abraham, when God told him to offer up His
“only son Isaac” upon an altar on one of the mountains that God would show him
and he climbed the mountain with his son Isaac, and performed the most radical,
and most awesome kind of worship one could imagine.
So
what if we should promote the idea of worshipping God 24 hours a day! Indeed we should. But it has nothing to do with learning how to
perform such a kind of worship. But if
we are in tune with God, and walking in the Spirit we should, from the time we
rise in the morning till we go to sleep at night, we should be worshippers of
God “in spirit and in truth.”
We
should not expect any reward for some kind of religious worship that we have
contrived, to get something from God. True
worship brings us to the place where we fall before God in utter contempt for
all that we are and causes us to exalt the Lord of Glory, in deep humiliation
and abhorrence of everything that springs from our carnal hearts and minds. True worship toward God springs from a heart
that loves Him so much, and desires His Presence so much that in all that is
within us we are “worshipping God in Spirit and in Truth.”
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