The words "adoration" and "praise" are on the lips of millions of people, surely more than ever before in history. That is a very good thing, when it is a biblical worship and praise of the one true God.
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But I would dare to suggest that even those of us who adore and praise the Lord with all our hearts have not always taken the time to study what the Bible teaches about worship and praise. Have you ever looked for the words "worship" and "praise" in the Bible, to see how they are used?
The objective (quite ambitious!) Of this article is to try to summarize in ten principles what the Bible teaches about adoration and praise.
According to the Bible, the number one goal of our worship should be to please God and give him glory.
True worship is not egocentric, but theocentric. I'm not in the center of the stage; There is God. The idea is not that we have a good time; the idea is to please the Lord and give him glory.
We use the words: "I like it" and "I do not like it" a lot. Interestingly, the only place in the Bible where the words "I like" are found is in Genesis 27: 4, Isaac's words to his son Esau: "Make me a stew as I like ...". And you know how that ended! But today, the words "I like" are the words that are most heard; a reflection, no doubt, of the egocentricity that so easily takes over us. And there is too much of "I like" and "I do not like" in our worship.
True worship should not be a matter of our tastes; The only thing that really matters is that the Lord likes it, likes it and gives glory to Him.
to praise God is to recognize his virtues, to be impacted by them and to praise him for them.
To praise is "praise, celebrate with words". We praise our favorite athletes, artists and actors. We praise the people we love the most. To praise someone is to recognize their virtues, to be impressed and impressed by those virtues and to praise them for them.
And we praise the Lord for his many wonderful virtues, be it directly: "Lord, how great you are!"; or indirectly: "How good is the Lord!"
But is this how the word "praise" is being used when talking about "leaders of praise" or "times of praise"? Well, sometimes, yes, and other times, no, right?