Worship is the being lost in wonder at what we find in God and in Christ, and thus occupied, the heart overflows in adoration. God wants us, as His children, to know, not only that we are within the Father’s house, but within the Father’s bosom. He wants to have our minds filled with thoughts about His Son, and when a saint’s heart is full of this, it ascends up to God as worship. Knowing my redemption and that God is my Father, I have fellowship with God, and I am led through the power of the Holy Spirit into God’s estimate of the beauty and the humiliation of His Christ. Worship is being nothing and having God’s thoughts about Jesus rolling through my soul. When Jesus is everything, I am occupied with God, not about what I am, but about what Christ is. When the Spirit has led us to know the blood on the mercy-seat, He spends His time in taking of the things of Jesus and showing them to us and thus supplies food for worship. In the burnt, meat and peace offerings, we have Christ presented to us in type as the subject for worship. In the burnt offering, His perfect self-renunciation and devotedness to God, even to the death; in the meat offering, His life in action; in the peace offering, as the link between God and the church, that on which God and the church together feed in happy communion.
Girdle of Truth