The State Of Our Hearts
written at Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Was reading through the book by Bob Kauflin called "Worship Matters" last night. Who quotes...
The great hymn-writer Isaac Watts once wrote:
The Great God values not the service of men, if the heart be not in it: The Lord sees and judges the heart he has no regard to outward forms of worship, if there be no inward adoration, if no devout affection be employed therein. It is a matter of infinite importance, to have the whole heart engaged steadfastly for God.
"We learn that music isn't an end in itself but rather a means of expressing the worship already present in our hearts through the new life we've received in Jesus Christ."
How true, I've been thinking about this last night, since the jet lag was still affecting me. I stayed up to think. I can be in the smallest family church in the middle of nowhere in a rural part of the South Island, or I can be in a passion/hillsong conference, to very different situations, probably very different music styles as well! But what difference would it make if my heart isn't in worship to God and God alone?
Something to think about.
The State Of Our Hearts
written at Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Was reading through the book by Bob Kauflin called "Worship Matters" last night. Who quotes...
The great hymn-writer Isaac Watts once wrote:
The Great God values not the service of men, if the heart be not in it: The Lord sees and judges the heart he has no regard to outward forms of worship, if there be no inward adoration, if no devout affection be employed therein. It is a matter of infinite importance, to have the whole heart engaged steadfastly for God.
"We learn that music isn't an end in itself but rather a means of expressing the worship already present in our hearts through the new life we've received in Jesus Christ."
How true, I've been thinking about this last night, since the jet lag was still affecting me. I stayed up to think. I can be in the smallest family church in the middle of nowhere in a rural part of the South Island, or I can be in a passion/hillsong conference, to very different situations, probably very different music styles as well! But what difference would it make if my heart isn't in worship to God and God alone?
Something to think about.
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What matters supremely, therefore, is not
in the last analysis, the fact that I know God,
but the larger fact which underlies it --
the fact that He knows me.
J. I. Packer
