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Looking Around Worship

  • Writer: Linda Rock
    Linda Rock
  • 3 days ago
  • 4 min read
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O magnify the Lord with me. Let us exalt his name together. Psalm 34: 3 

 

We joyfully close this most open, wide and vicarious week of looking around, right, left, centre and within, by looking around and about one verse of a gladsome psalm, with exciting and thrilling privilege. Indeed, it is nothing but a privilege of joy, to be able to stop and employ all our powers in magnifying our most Loving, Heavenly Father and exalting His High and wonderfully glorious Name.


We have been called to magnify the Lord with the psalmist, and to exalt God’s Name. As we look about us, the first admission or confession, is that we hold no kind of work and no part of effort in what we are viewing. We have been given an opportunity, nothing of our initiation, our invitation, or our innovation. It’s all David’s. We are responding with joy, anticipation and sheer excitement to worship Almighty Sovereign God, with one whose heart is to the Lord. Let’s have our minds refreshed about what God said to Samuel about David. I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will. Acts 13: 22b.


We pause to hear clearly, that this is exactly what our worship and service to Sovereign, Father God must always be. It must always be a response to the call of Jesus, the One in whom God is always well-pleased. Even our desire to learn, is a response to our Lord’s call. From looking around this one verse, may God the Holy Spirit lift us in wisdom and understanding, in true worship and true service to God.


Initiation

Learning from David, we know that this is not our initiation, it’s David’s. We accept that when we hear the psalmist say to us, O, it is he who has initiated this whole sharing, this whole fellowship session. The word, the sound, the expression, of this one syllable utterance, O, is full of beauty, unsearchable riches, verdure and pleasantness. The entire purview of the word, O, is nothing but joy, holy awe and excitement. It is all David’s offering to you and to me, to come and magnify and worship the Lord with him. Can you see him? Can’t you just hear the fullness of a man, lost in wonder, love and praise?


It is he who has initiated this whole sharing, this whole fellowship. It is all his ordering, delight and unabashed excitement, to have us join him in high praise to God. It is not that you do not know God, or that you do not know much about His attributes. No! What David is doing is to initiate a holy response in you, which has been initiated in him by God. He holds God high! He is as a man swooning, abducted, captured and totally love-struck by his God’s majesty, beauty and almightiness. I believe with all my heart that David is somewhere, looking around the unlimited view of nature. I believe he is in a place that draws him and leads him to his ever-present Lord, whether he looks north, south, east or west. 


When we worship and serve our Heavenly Father, we respond to the initiation of Jesus, who is Spirit.

Invitation

Be ever conscious of this unmistakable fact. This is not our invitation to David. It’s David’s invitation to us. We receive his call, and accept that, when we hear the psalmist say to us, Magnify the LORD with me, we are being invited to come where he is and receive as he has received and is receiving. It is not that you do not know God, or that you don’t praise and worship Him. No! What David is doing is inviting you to come with him, to join him in this hour of worship and fellowship, with his God. Be not deceived about this! Even if you do not accept, he will continue joyfully in magnifying his Lord. His magnifying God doesn’t hinge on you. Yours is the privilege to join what is already in progress, in the overwhelmingly grateful heart of David.  

When we praise, worship and serve our Heavenly Father, we respond to the invitation of Jesus, who is Spirit.

Innovation

Again, your eyes are on the one who has called you to honour, worship, and revere God. You have responded and are most aware that it is his call, not yours. It is his innovation, his idea, his way, his design in this time of joining him in exalting the Name of the Lord. Let us exalt his name together. It is not as though you never lifted the Name of the Lord high or that you never revered Him. No! It is that you have agreed to join David in his way and his design of worship.

What I mean is this. There are different, perfectly acceptable ways of magnifying the Lord. However, in this time, this hour, David is exalting the Name of the Lord. He is not crying out for help to be saved from an enemy, for example. His prayers, in this hour, are specifically on exalting God’s Holy Name. In this way, we see him as the innovator, and you are called to follow David in this. Don’t be mistaken, David has not called you to bring your ideas of worship for this time. No! You are invited to join him in what he is doing. This is exactly how it is with Jesus, our Lord and King, through His Divine Holy Spirit, who invites us to praise and worship His Heavenly Father, and exalt His Matchless Name.

When we praise, worship, honour and magnify our Heavenly Father, we respond to the innovation of Jesus, who is Spirit.

Look around! See the Lord! Receive His initiation, invitation and innovation in praise, worship, reverence and service to Sovereign Almighty God.
 
 
 
 

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