Why Should We Worship Jesus" Part Four

Why Should We Worship Jesus?  (Part 4)

Worshiping Through Jesus

Though we bought the serpent's lie that we can be our own god and live for our own glory, we remain worshipers.  As such we are sometimes inwardly focused toward ourselves and the "me" syndrome.  But because Jesus lived the perfectly sinless life of unceasing worship, his life, death, and resurrection alone can reconcile us to God.  Therefore, only through the power of God can we be made worshipers instead of idolaters and glorify Him.  Romans 6:4 teaches that our worship includes a new life lived to the glory of God and patterned after the life of Jesus:  "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we should also walk in newness of life."  (KJV).

Worshiping Like Jesus

Not only do we worship through Jesus, we must also worship like Jesus.  Jesus lived a life of perfect glory and thus we can look at everything in His life - from the ordinary to the extraordinary - as born out of a life of ceaseless worship that glorified God.  Jesus' life destroys any notion that worship is a sacred thing we do at a special time or place.  Cutting our grass and cleaning our dishes can be as sacred and God-glorifying as raising our hands in church.  Jesus himself modeled this.  He spent roughly 90 percent of his earthly life doing chores as a boy and working a carpentry job as a man.  All of life is to be lived as ceaseless worship.  I Corinthians 10:31 reinforces these statements with this:  "Whether therefore ye eat, drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." (KJV)  I Corinthians 6:20 also supports a life or worship:  "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's" (KJV).

Worshiping Jesus 

Through the worship of Jesus Christ alone there is joy, freedom, holiness, and life.  Only by worshiping God our creator are we free to enjoy creation by rightly eating, drinking, sleeping, playing, working, laughing, loving, weeping, marrying, parenting, living, and dying to the glory of God.  I am a Christian because I want to be happy and, after trying lesser things, I am convinced that my desires are from God and can find their satisfaction in Him alone.