Common worship. What is worship? What is our role on earth? We are to be imitators of God. What is the Holy Spirits role? To embody the relationship and love experienced between God the Father and God the Son and to join with us and enable us to experience that relationship and love and then to extend that to others. When we join in communion or communal giving we are symbolically joining in to that union. We are coming together just as the Trinity is in community together and saying that we are one, of one body, of one flesh.
God is not prideful that we might be humble, sometimes seems hard to worship a God who seems to expect continual praise and devotion and sacrifice because He is all powerful and mighty and our creator. When we think this way though we forget that God is three in one. The bible teaches that Jesus is the perfect example of humility – putting aside himself to death that God the Father might receive all glory. Likewise the Spirit comes to bring glory to the Father and to the Son. The Father Himself sacrificed His son for us putting our needs before His. This humility and love is continually demonstrated in the way God is in community and always has been. If we can begin to grasp that then we can understand why God demands that we be humble. It is only in humility that true community and love can be experienced and that is Gods desire for us – that we be in perfect community and love with Him and with all of His creation. Seen in this light humility and worship become much more desirable!
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