Reverencing God in Public Worship

We are living in a day when very few people are going to church. So it may seem to us that it is ludicrous to talk about how you ought to worship God, when so many aren't going to church at all. Shouldn't we be thankful if anyone goes to church for any reason at all, and worships God in any way that they please? These verses say no. These verses are saying that there is a right way to worship our great God, and there is a wrong way to worship Him. These verses are saying that God ought to be reverenced. These verses are telling us that our worship of God is to be engaged in prudently; that is, that we would be wise and holy and careful in our worship of Him. To be prudent means that you are able to “govern and discipline yourself by the use of reason”. It means that you are wise and shrewd in the management of the things that you say and do. At this time we want to look at 3 of the ways that we can reverence God when we go up to His House. The 1st lesson of reverencing God that we will want to remember, is that it is His House that we are coming into, and not our own. The 2nd lesson of reverencing God which we will want to remember is; that when we draw near to Him, it is to hear what He would say to us. And then the 3rd lesson that will want to remember is that our words ought to be carefully chosen.