Good Morning Everyone!
” The reason so many people cannot worship today is that they are not ready to give up being the “god” of their own lives.
The Psalmist wrote, “Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture” (Psalm 100:13).
•When we worship we understand that God is the Shepherd, and we are his sheep.
•He is the Creator, and we are his creation.
When we understand who we are in relation to God, we say with the Psalmist: “Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker” (Psalm 95:6).
We are here today to acknowledge that there is someone here greater than ourselves, and say to God,
“Father, without you we would not exist, and if we could somehow exist, our lives would mean nothing and count for nothing. But because you have made us and declared us valuable in your site, and blessed us with your divine purpose, our lives have meaning and are filled with joy because your Presence lives within us. We understand that you are above us, and that we are accountable to you. We are not in charge of the world, or even our individual lives. We worship you as the Lord of all life, including our own. We worship you with our lives by serving you. We worship you by accepting your will for us. We worship you by living for you rather than ourselves.” 
This is true worship. Jesus said, “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks” (John 4:23). God is seeking worshipers who understand who he is and who they are in relationship to him.
