GOD HAS FEW ADMIRERS AMONG CHRISTIANS TODAY

“…He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him” (1 JOHN 4:16)

To love God because He has been good to us is one of the most reasonable things possible but the quality of our worship is stepped up as we move away from the thought of what God has done for us and nearer the thought of the excellence of His holy nature.

 

This leads us to admiration!

 

The dictionary says that to admire is “to regard with wondering esteem accompanied by pleasure and delight; to look at or upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure.”

 

According to this definition, God has few admirers among Christians today.

 

Many are they who are grateful for His goodness in providing salvation. Testimony meetings are mostly devoted to recitations of incidents where someone got into trouble and got out again in answer to prayer. It is good and right to render unto God thanksgiving for all His mercies to us. But God’s admirers—where are they?

 

The simple truth is that worship is elementary until it begins to take on the quality of admiration!

 

Just as long as the worshiper is engrossed with himself and his good fortune, he is a babe. We begin to grow up when our worship passes from thanksgiving to admiration. As our hearts rise to God in lofty esteem for that which He is, we begin to share a little of the selfless pleasure which is a portion of the blessed in heaven!

 

 

  1. W. Tozer