Call to Worship God, to Gather Together
Here are a few verses relating to Jesus’ authority and His rightful place in your life, and God the Father having His rightful place on the throne of your heart:
Mark 2:10
“I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”
Zechariah 1:3
Return to me and I will return to you.
Revelation 5:3
Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!”
Worship is meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this center, the Living God. Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or diluted lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by specters and soothed by placebos. If there is no center, there is no circumference.
~ Edmund Clowney
Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, on this day of worship for so many around the world, I give you Your rightful place in my life. Sweep off and out any part of my heart that has risen up in opposition to You and has sought to displace You. I include my own ego and my anxieties that plague me. I want nothing but You in the center of who I am and all that I live for. In Your name I pray, Amen.