Worship: A Habit?

     Often when encouraging an unfaithful Christian to return to worship with the saints, the reply will be, “Oh, I know I ought to be there, but I guess I’ve just gotten out of the habit.  Maybe one of these days I’ll get started again.”

   Regarding worship as a habit seems to put it on the same level as brushing our teeth or taking a walk. Until we view worship as an integral part of our daily lives, it may be easy for us to break the “habit” of worship.

   The purpose of our worship is to honor and magnify the God of the universe.  This is going to require a love, reverence, and devotion in our hearts each day of the week.   Only when we live with God daily, and know Him intimately, will we feel the desire to exalt and honor him on the Lord’s Day.  A deep understanding of the love that sent Jesus to the cross for our sins will elevate worship from a habit to a privilege.

   The joyful Psalmist urged, “Exalt ye the Lord, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy” (Psalm 99:5).  We serve a holy God!  Our souls cry out for a spiritual fellowship with our Creator – the One in whose image we were created.  We must cultivate that desire with knowledge, self-discipline, and training so that we, like David, can say, “I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord’ (Psalm 122:1)

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