My Worship
“On that day HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the LORD’s house will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar. Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD Almighty, and all who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD Almighty.”
Today’s Text: Zechariah 14:16-21 (Living Life Daily Devotional)
Jesus Christ, my Lord and my God, will return one day. That day could be today.
“And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD Almighty.”
The prophecy is not talking about genocide. The prophecy is saying that everyone in the house of the LORD Almighty will be “HOLY TO THE LORD.”
Sadly, not everyone in this age who attends Sunday worship is HOLY TO THE LORD. Some people do not believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I take it on faith that God has brought them into our worship for the sake of experiencing the gospel.
Others might believe in Jesus, but they do not yet fully grasp the significance of worshiping the Lord of heaven and earth. Many come out of habit. Many come for their friends. Many come for the spectacle. And others may have good days and not-so-good days as far as that awareness of worship is concerned.
Training our hearts to grasp the significance of worship may be one of the most important goals of discipleship that there is.
And that is because, if we could “see” our Lord, “high and exalted, seated on a throne” (Isaiah 6:1), our most natural response would be to worship Him. And the Scriptures make it abundantly clear that the primary reason that God has created us is to worship Him.
If we do not embrace that truth, then nothing else that the Bible says will make any sense. Or rather, if we do not embrace that truth, everything that the Bible says will be distorted by a skewed understanding.
It’s really just logic. If we start with the wrong premises, we will end up with the wrong conclusions.
The biblical corollary of the truth that we have been created for the purpose of worshiping God is twofold. (1) Our lives ought to revolve around the worship of God. And (2) we ought to encourage as many people as possible to do the same.
Everything about the Christian life ought to be governed by that biblical logic. And one day—”on that day”—those who call on Jesus as Lord won’t have to think about what makes logical sense or doesn’t make logical sense. We will simply be “HOLY TO THE LORD.”
But today, if our lives are not being governed by the biblical logic of worship, then we are somehow missing the mark, and that is called sin.
We allow all kinds of things to distract us from worshiping the Lord of heaven and earth.
I think we can all admit that if we knew that some person that we idolize (or even greatly admire) were coming to the South Bay for an event, not much would stop us from attending that event with our utmost zeal.
Should we not come to our Lord Jesus Christ—the Creator of heaven and earth, the Giver of life, the One who formed us in our mothers’ wombs, the Author of our salvation, the Forgiver of our sins, the Redeemer of our souls—with the same zeal and invite others to do the same?
I need to remind myself of that logic constantly, because my heart and mind is so prone to wander.
Father, You are the Holy One, and You have saved me that I might be Holy to the Lord. Forgive me when I allow all kinds of things to distract me from worshiping You. Where would we be without Your grace. But let us not take Your grace for granted. Make us into worshippers who worship You for who You truly are—in Spirit and in truth. In Jesus’s name. Amen.
