Make Me a Worshipper!

"Make me a worshipper!" Does this seem to you like a strange exclamation? Is this a foreign desire? If you stood on a street corner with your head poised at heaven and shouted "MAKE ME A WORSHIPPER", people would stare at you like a hair on a biscuit!

Why would you want to be one of those "worshippers", most might say. Well, because God is seeking such. Though this may seem elementary, many believers today are unaware of the fact that God Himself WANTS His people to worship Him. God desires that this passion reside in each and every one of us; He wants to be worshipped. In fact, Jesus said, "But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: FOR THE FATHER SEEKETH SUCH to worship him" (Jn 4:23). The Lord actually TAKES PLEASURE in those who fear Him (Ps 147:11); He DELIGHTS in the prayer of the upright (Prov 15:8). He even wants to hear our voices (Song 2:14)! What an astounding thought! The God of the universe is worried about hearing my individual (and tone-deaf) voice! Shouldn't we strive then to give the Father what He seeks?

So why, may we ask, does God desire such things from such people as us? Is He insecure? Does he require His followers to surround Him day and night only for HIS benefit? No. He is surely not insecure, as some have claimed. While He does delight in our worship, He also wants to be worshipped so that HIS PEOPLE can receive the benefit of His communion!

Let's honestly ask ourselves: "Am I a worshipper?" "Do I struggle to worship Jesus?" "Does my heart ache for His presence, and my tongue thirst for His waters?"

If you do struggle, then the Bible has an answer... Following is just one simple Scriptural key to ELEVATE our worship of the Lord Jesus. Observe:

Psalm 48:10 says, "ACCORDING TO THY NAME, O God, SO IS THY PRAISE unto the ends of the earth..." Do we struggle to worship? Then simply apply yourself to THE knowledge of God, and your heart will overflow with increase! It's cause and effect. Why? Because our worship can only ever go as far as our personal revelation of Jesus, and His character (name). Because you cannot truly worship Him whom your heart has yet to really know. You cannot be intimate with a stranger. You cannot force your love upon anyone. Can you force lust? Yes, but not LOVE. Love must be birthed, and birthing is a gradual process. The knowledge of God is the seed which gets things rolling! Not a mere head knowledge, a heart-knowledge! An intimate knowing. What may be an ocean of blackness to the human intellect is a sea of sunshine to the human heart.

Jesus accredits this idea in John 17:26 when He says, "I have declared unto them THY NAME, and will declare it: [in order] THAT the love wherewith thou hast loved me MAY BE IN THEM, and I in them." Do you recognize the cause and effect? Can you notice the reason why the Holy Ghost is yet declaring the name (character) of God? It is to increase the worship of His people!

Moses was a man who lived this experience first-hand. In Exodus 34:6-7 we read, "And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation."

And what effect did this "knowledge" have upon Moses?

"And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped" (Exod 34:8).