he Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Ezra 3:3,6,
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"Despite their fear of the peoples around them, they built the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the Lord, both the morning and evening sacrifices... On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, though the foundation of the Lord's temple had not yet been laid."
When the Jews returned to their homeland following a seventy year captivity in Babylon, the first thing they did was to built an altar and began worshiping the Lord. I note that was how they started their renewed establishment as a nation - worship. The temple had not yet been built, or even a foundation for it laid before they began their worship of the Lord.
I wonder if we might take a clue from the Israelites here. Worship appears to hold the preeminent order of events for building a nation for God. We might say the critical path for reestablishing Israel began with worship.
How about us today? If we plant a new church somewhere, where to begin? Worship! If we begin a new marriage, a new family, where to begin? Worship! If we begin a new life with the Lord, where to begin? Worship!
Worship forces us to acknowledge our dependence upon the Lord. Worship "centers" us on the bigger things we need to keep our eyes on. Worship keep us from distraction, from being pulled away from our focus on the Lord.
Worship acknowledges the wonderful character, nature and deeds of our transcendent God. Worship requires the confession of those very things and keeps us clear, centered, and motivated!
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