Now we were made to worship, but the Scriptures tell us something else again. They tell us that man fell and kept not his first estate; that he forfeited the original glory of God and failed to fulfill the creative purpose, so that he is not worshiping now in the way that God meant him to worship. All else fulfills its design; flowers are still fragrant and lilies are still beautiful and the bees still search for nectar amongst the flowers; the birds still sing with their thousand-voice choir on a summer\u2019s day, and the sun and the moon and the stars all move on their rounds doing the will of God.<\/p>\n
And from what we can learn from the Scriptures we believe that the seraphim and cherubim and powers and dominions are still fulfilling their design\u2014worshiping God who created them and breathed into them the breath of life. Man alone sulks in his cave. Man alone, with all of his brilliant intelligence, with all of his amazing, indescribable and wonderful equipment, still sulks in his cave. He is either silent, or if he opens his mouth at all, it is to boast and threaten and curse; or it\u2019s nervous, ill-considered laughter, or it\u2019s humor become big business, or it\u2019s songs without joy.<\/p>\n
Worship: The Missing Jewel,<\/i> 6, 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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