{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Worship","description":" \u201cYour covenant laws are your gift to me forever. They fill my heart with joy\u201d (Psalm 119:111). The past few Wednesday\u2019s, we have wondered what God meant when he called David, \u201ca man after my own heart.\u201d I say, \u2018wondered\u2019, because the Bible does not define this phrase. We are, of course, not talking about things we need for salvation. Rather, these are things God saw in David that delighted him. We should want God to delight in us, as well. Three delights have been mentioned: obedience, humility, and integrity. Today, we conclude with this: David worshipped God. Some of you may think of David and his harp, during the various stages of his life, shepherd, outlaw, king, composing psalms that are dear to God\u2019s people still today. Psalm 8, \u201cLord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth\u201d. Psalm 139, \u201cYou have searched me, Lord, and you know me\u201d. Psalm 32, \u201cBlessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.\u201d Psalm 23, \u201cThe Lord is my shepherd. I lack nothing.\u201d Psalm 24, \u201cThe earth is the Lord\u2019s and everything in it, the world and all who live in it\u2026\u201d And so many more. We may also think about the joy filled worship of God\u2019s gathered church. For us, worship is hearts and hands lifted to God in praise, knees bowed in prayer and confession, ears listening attentively to his Word read and expounded, hands offering service and gifts of money and mouths building up the people with words of encouragement and with prayer. However, we must consider that participating in corporate worship services do not make us worshippers of God. Plenty of times in the Bible, God chastises his people for engaging in the formal acts of worship but not worshipping him at all. Take some time to read through Amos 5, Isaiah 58 and Matthew 6. David was a worshipper of God not because he composed songs that became part of the Bible. Rather, he was a worshipper because he loved God and his love led him to obey God. I encourage you to be part of a community gathered in Christ\u2019s name in which your love for God is fanned into the flame of obedience. A community where the grace of God in Christ is proclaimed, received and lived. In such communities, Jesus\u2019 words come to fulfillment, \u201cIf anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me\u2026streams of living water will flow from within him\u201d (John 7:37,38). We cannot worship God and not go forth to bless those around us. Are you seeking to delight God? Here are four qualities that God delights in and the Spirit grows in us: obedience, humility, integrity, worship. As you journey on, go with the blessing of God: \u201cMay God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together\u2014spirit, soul, and body\u2014and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ. The One who called you is completely dependable. If he said it, he\u2019ll do it\u201d (1 Thessalonians 5:23). ","author_name":"Wilderness Wanderings","author_url":"http:\/\/www.immanuelministries.ca\/","html":"