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would later say of the citizen: the same sense of civic virtue,<br />
of discipline and duty, lies behind the two names… The<br />
saints saw themselves as divine instruments and theirs was<br />
the politics of wreckers, architects, and builders—hard at<br />
work upon the political world… They treated every obstacle<br />
as another example of the devil‘s resourcefulness and they<br />
summoned all their energy, imagination, and craft to<br />
overcome it.<br />
Adoration:<br />
After the world had been created, man was placed in it as in a<br />
theater, that he, beholding above him and beneath the wonderful<br />
works of God, might reverently adore their Author…<br />
Professor B.Z. Phillips once commented on a book of essays<br />
by various celebrated individuals entitled The God I want… that he<br />
could not imagine a sillier exercise: ―it is not the God I want, but<br />
the God you are damn well going to get‖ 199 Phillips‘s sentiments<br />
resonate deeply with our sound Reformed conviction that all<br />
human beings are accountable at every moment to the living God.<br />
Only by lifting our gaze to our Lord and God brings focus and<br />
depth to life. As we have noted, our life and destiny are rooted in<br />
the design and will of God. Trust and obedience should be the<br />
reflex of all who would pursue their chief end: ―to glorify God and<br />
enjoy him forever.‖<br />
This should affect our worship. Too often worship in the<br />
church is obsessed with the ―unholy trinity‖ of ―me, myself, and I.‖<br />
It was man‘s disobedience that led to this tragic myopia. Bent in on<br />
himself, man could no longer attend to the Word of God wherein<br />
lay his glory and salvation. How much more, then, should the<br />
focus of our worship be on the majesty and wonder of God. The<br />
order of Reformed worship has reflected that emphasis for the last<br />
400 years and it should be maintained. True worship begins with<br />
adoration of God. Like Isaiah the prophet in the presence of God,<br />
199 as quoted in Colin Gunton‘s ―Proteus and Procrustes‖ in Speaking the<br />
Christian God. Ed. Alvin F. Kimel Jr., Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1992, p 91.
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