Why Should We Worship?

“Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!” (Psalm 150:2)

It is as John MacArthur also wrote in his book on worship called The Ultimate Priority, “Worship involves all that is inside a person, all that is outside a person, and all that takes place within the corporate assembly of God’s people. …Worship is all that we are, reacting rightly to all that He is.”

Worship happens because of who God is. It occurs when we come to realize the kind of God that stands above us as our Creator.

John Calvin calls us to worship God as well because of who he is: “If we would have our minds kindled, then, to engage in this religious service, let us meditate upon his power and greatness, which will speedily dispel all such insensibility. Though our minds can never take in this immensity, the mere taste of it will deeply affect us. And God will not reject such praises as we offer according to our capacity.”

Once we taste God, we won’t and can’t do anything but worship Him.

You can tell a lot about someone who studies God and who loves His Word; they don’t know of any other way to respond to what they have learned of God but to worship Him.