Worship

Worship should never be just a spectator event. 

Psalm 100:1, 2 "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing."

Hebrews 13:5 " By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name."

Much worship today has digressed to be no more than entertainment for people.  If we have choirs just to sing to us or concerts just to entertain us, we are not worshipping God; but we have become the spectators who are being entertained.  We dare not become spectators, because in worship it is God who is the spectator. People have the roles reversed.  People expect divine will to conform to what seems right in their own eyes.  

Proverbs 12:15 "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise."

Sadly, the emphasis is how can the worship service be made more entertaining to people to draw a crowd and please themselves and not God. In worship we must be the participants, not just observers. 

Worship to God should never be to please men.

Psalm 100:3 " Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture."

Galatians 1:10 " For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." 

Many people seem to think that God will accept anything they offer and be glad to get it. 

-To pervert and corrupt worship in trying to please and gratify ourselves is nothing short of blasphemy.  

-Worship is God-centered not man-centered.  When our worship is to please God instead of ourselves, then and only then will our worship be much more meaningful, spiritually uplifting, and acceptable to God.