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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