"O come"...
(enter in with purpose, with direction, with strategy, with the focus to love and be loved; This Is Imperative).
"Let us worship,"
(" posturing ourselves in homage and acknowledgement of the Superior" -- Worship is reflexive. It is reciprocal, has a past beginning, but has become a process of progressive purposeful growing desire; due to the imperfection of the initial and continual actions, there will be a need for repetition because of the reality of a transformation in the future ... This forward focus transforms and colors the present relationship - and worship grows)
"And bow down:"
(bend, kneel , bow, crouch ... Position ourselves for reverence ... Ongoing imperfect but intentional positioning)
"And bow down:"
(bend, kneel , bow, crouch ... Position ourselves for reverence ... Ongoing imperfect but intentional positioning)
"Let us kneel"
(to kneel in adoration … Position ourselves in adoration... Ongoing imperfect but intentional positioning)
"Before the Lord Our Maker."
(Who in postures Himself in the making, the holding, and the molding, us in His Love)
Psalm 95:6
The Heart of the Artist's Eye was captured by a certain lump of clay... Nothing special to the casual glance of the actors passing by. The Artist's vision of Love had him reaching his hands into the mire and rescuing the lump from the "bog of lost dreams". As the actors of the Kingdom looked on wagging their heads in unbelief and astonishment, The Artist continued singing, lifting, sifting, cleaning, and separating the clay, while at the same time starting the creation of a unique and timeless masterpiece connected to His heart: He so loved the Dream. The lump of clay lifelessly dripped a slimy path of the mire as the Artist carried it to the Wheel.
The actors pretended to look the other way.
Placing the clay Dream on His Potter's Wheel - The Artist felt the growing pain of the clay's infirmities. He spoke the command of Love - COME! ...He began by breathing His Breath of life into the formless lump of the Dream. The Dream trembled and bowed in submission to the overwhelming power and perfection of the Life contained in the Artist's Breath of Love. The Potter's wheel began to turn.
The actors yawned with disinterest.
Under the progressive intentional turning of the wheel, and gentle pressure of the Artist's Hands, there was a continual exposing of the Dream's flaws. But this labor of love also began revealing the beauty as the Dream started to revere and realize the value of the Artist's intervention. More and more in a growing reflexive manner, mutual love would melt and transform reverence into adoration, and the Dream would be seen as "being" part of the Artist's Kingdom; and not just "acting" the part.
The actors fell asleep with apathy as Miracles in the Kingdom continued to transform willing hearts everywhere.
Note: Worship cannot be captured in a time, a generation, a place, a musical style, a religious tradition or a particular people group. It cannot be contained or controlled by mere human will, because it is drawn out by the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Worship is the "bowing of the will of the believer" in reverence and adoration to the devotional dependence on the LORD for all things. It is the continued revelation of the Artist that will empower itself in the reflexive responses of Reverence and Adoration, and manifest itself in thanksgiving, praise and joyfulness; Songs will be written and sung from the heart of worship that will join His mighty singing over us. (Worship in not solely founded in the corporate moments of song or of all people, when alone. we are truly alone.)
Warning: In every generation there has been "parallel, powerless, worship" that has to be kickstarted by the manipulation of human empathy and a flesh fed desire for a touch from eternity. Although the desire to know God is good in itself, because this Pho-worship has a momentary release, it may be recklessly capitalized on and flagrantly marketed to profit from the naive and suffering little ones of the Kingdom. Don't be caught up in the feeding frenzy of guaranteed worship for sale or for hire, you may get caught in the overturning of the money changers tables.
As the curtain of life is lifted,
The actors are back on the Stage powerlessly performing …
But the Dream is fully alive in the power of the Spirit and the Word of God, living the life of Worship.
"Thou shalt have none other gods before Me."
HLFA,
Jeff