23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord (Isaiah 66:23).
One way or the other, all will worship God. But from the context of the verses surrounding verse 23, it appears that not all do so willingly. You may wonder why God demands worship? On the surface it may seem that God is a megalomaniac. But this is not so. God is holy and a holy God demands worship as part of His being. And it is therefore a proper response to a holy God to worship. Part of our problem with understanding may be that we really don’t know what it means for God to be holy. One thing is for sure, we have not seen holy in our human experience and so holiness is something that is truly foreign to our experience. Holiness is other worldliness and as such is difficult to comprehend. I believe that when we see God, there will be a kind of compulsion from the depths of our souls to bow down and worship God. The cause of the compulsion is the holiness of God.
One way or the other, all will worship God. But from the context of the verses surrounding verse 23, it appears that not all do so willingly. You may wonder why God demands worship? On the surface it may seem that God is a megalomaniac. But this is not so. God is holy and a holy God demands worship as part of His being. And it is therefore a proper response to a holy God to worship. Part of our problem with understanding may be that we really don’t know what it means for God to be holy. One thing is for sure, we have not seen holy in our human experience and so holiness is something that is truly foreign to our experience. Holiness is other worldliness and as such is difficult to comprehend. I believe that when we see God, there will be a kind of compulsion from the depths of our souls to bow down and worship God. The cause of the compulsion is the holiness of God.
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