Jack Hayford
We have a national disposition to emphasize our right to worship “in our own way.” While I’m grateful for that freedom, of course, it misses an essential fact about true worship: Biblical worship is on God’s terms, not ours. Psalm 95, in calling us to worship, says nothing about our rights. Instead, it summarily calls us to bow down, to kneel before this One whose creatures we are, sheep of His pasture. And make no mistake—the call to bowing and kneeling is more than merely to bodily postures. It focuses the surrender of our will and way to Him. It means that we are granting supreme authority to God; that in worship and in life we are giving up our will in favor of His. It notes a foundational fact about true worship: Once I choose the Living God as my God, I give up the right to worship “in my own way.” In the very act of naming God God, you and I are granting to Him alone the right to prescribe how He wishes to be worshiped.
Jack Hayford



















