Episode 163: Worship: What we are required to know in order to worship (Part 3)

We continued to look at how knowing about God is critical for us to be able to worship God. This has been a critical theme to the topic of worship. What I have discovered in studying this subject has been how clearly the Bible points to what we need to know about God. There are certain aspects to God’s nature which the Bible itself declares as critical to knowing and worshipping God. There are some fundamental things about God we must understand to properly conceive of who we are engaging with. First and foremost the Bible presents us with a God who is a person or probably is better stated as having personhood. This is part of what being created in the image of God is about. We are people and have personhood because God has personhood and we are made in his image. This means simply we can relate to God and engage with God as a person because we understand personhood. Secondly and fundamentally God is a trinity and has eternally existed as a trinity. This means one of the fundamental aspects of God is relationship. He has always existed in relationship and always will exist in relationship. It explains why relationships are fundamentally important to us. It also tells us we can engage with God in relationship. This could cause us to begin to think about God in human terms but the Bible corrects us there calling us to think of God as not only having personhood and loving relationships but to remember He is a Spirit. As a Spirit God is immortal and invisible. Both of those things affect other aspects of who He is and how we think of Him. We cannot make an image of God not only because it breaks one of the ten commandments but because He is invisible. Because He is immortal He cannot die and death is not part of His nature. But even though these things seem to separate us from God He clearly calls on His people throughout the Bible to enter into relationship with Him. He wants us to know and love Him because He loves us and gave Himself up for us to bring us back to Him. The Bible talks about the unchanging nature of God. He never grows old. He never gets tired. His power is never diminished. He is unchangeable. We call this aspect of God His immutability. In addition to this God is also all powerful. There is simply nothing God is not capable of doing. We call this God’s omnipotence. He never gets tired. He simply cannot get tired because He is all powerful. It is important for worshippers of God to understand God never changes and He is all powerful because we can trust the promises He made thousands of years ago are still true because God is still the same. We can also trust God will do what He has promised and said because He is all powerful and He can accomplish whatever He sets out to do.