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Monday, October 24, 2005
WOWAW 18: Worship as ‘Vital Instinct’
This’ week’s Words of Wisdom about Worship:
Some worship to meet somebody else’s expectations. Some worship out of pure habit. Some worship in spite of—or because of—the fact that they are locked in some kind of struggle with God, whom they experience as an adversary.
But many feel themselves drawn to worship—though they may not be able to say why. Some vital instinct rises up to praise the One from who our lives—and all lives—have sprung. The majesty of the Divine evokes praise, much as a spectacular sunset moves even the atheist to a sense of awe. A deeply rooted human impulse urges us to bless the power that formed the universe and keeps it in motion. People worship because it comes as naturally as eating and drinking. We simply can’t help it.
—Ronald Byars, Christian Worship: Glorifying and Enjoying God
• Listen to a reading of this quote(mp3)
by CICW’s Nathan Bierma
Earlier: WOWAW 17
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