It's All About the Heart!

Psalm 2:11 – “Worship the Lord with reverence and rejoice with trembling.”

We are instructed here to ‘worship’ with ‘reverence’ and to ‘rejoice’ with ‘trembling’. It describes two actions or activities – worship and rejoicing – then it describes the mind set, or heart attitude from which each action should be birthed – reverence and trembling. So many believers approach worship, either formal or informal, in a flippant, entertained, self-satisfying manner, with little regard for how God sees it. It’s always about the heart. It’s about a reverent, God-centered, repentant heart attitude. Our lives must be permeated with a reverence for God. True worship, pleasing to the Lord, only comes from a humble, contrite, reverent, and repentant heart. The fruit of this kind of worship is that we are reminded of just how holy God is and just how unworthy we are, and then just how amazing His grace is in saving us – and we are overwhelmed with gratitude and love for the Lord. Reverence and trembling usher forth true worship and true rejoicing. Bow down in reverence before a holy God. Tremble at your unworthiness and His holiness, and then in humility and gratitude rejoice in His mercy and grace; and worship Him in spirit and in truth. Allow God to prepare the rich soil of your heart by plowing and breaking up clumps of dirt and removing rocks of sin, and pulling out weeds of pride; and then watch the new growth come forth and water the fragile new plants with tears of gratitude, tears of reverence, tears of trembling, tears of rejoicing, and tears of worship. Amen and amen.