“Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.” (Psa. 99:9).
Do you believe that worship is due to God alone?
God is to be worshipped alone. Saints nor creatures should ever be worshipped. the Christian church has always contended that god alone is to be worshipped, and that all other worship id idolatry. The express command of God by which he forbids having any other gods before himself in Exodus 20:3, “thou shalt have no other gods before me” or as the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament says, “besides me.” Here the Lord decrees that nothing should be religiously worshipped except himself. God alone supreme is the proper object of worship.
Do you worship god alone? Or are there other things in your life that become more important than devotion and worship to him?
Whatever we may adore, in worship, it must be God alone. At not time may we transfer such honor to any other created thing, or anything we may think is more important; even for an instant. This is confirmed by Christ disputing against Satan: “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve,” (Mt. 4:10). From the nature of God we find expressed in 1 Sam. 7:3 that we are to, “serve him only.”
Francis Turretin said, “If there was no other reason, the expression of the Savior is sufficient for us to conclude that religious worship must be paid to God alone.”
The Greek word for worship in the NT is the verb latreian. This word is used in reference only to God. Adoring and worshiping mean the same thing, and are directed to God. Even the devil does not seek latreian, but proskynesin (“All these things will I give thee,” he says, “if thou wilt fall down and worship me.” Since Christ refuses this to him, by that very thing is unconquerably testified that proskynesin as well as latreian is due to God alone. Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology.
Contemplation:
Sovereign God, cause me to praise you as you deserve. Help me to glorify you by my praise. Though nothing can add the least mite to Your glory, yet allow my praise exalts you in my heart, mind, soul and by the strength of the Holy Spirit. Allow me to set forth Your honor, lift up Your name, proclaim Your excellent goodness, and release the sweet perfume of Your name which is sent abroad into the world.
Never allow me to offend you in my worship. Do not allow me to fall into idolatry. Let me not sacrifice my time or efforts to idols, with some false zeal that profits me nothing. Help me to be more zealous for your glory, than the hypocrites are who are zealous in their sinful worship.
