The Purpose of Man: Designed to Worship

by A.W. Tozer

“Worship,” Tozer explained, “is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most ancient Mystery, that majesty which philosophers call the First Cause but which we call Our Father Which Art in Heaven.”

Emerging from his prayer closet,

his labor must flow from a life of worship.

And, after all, it is God we are trying to please, not man.

his supreme desire was to exalt the Lord

Jesus Christ as simply as possible.

‘Practice the presence of God’

That one prayer has cost me plenty since, I can tell you that.”

To him, worship is the Christian’s full-time occupation.

I’ll look at you and I’ll see in your face the reflection of My own glory.

God anticipated that worship.

Only Adam and Eve were able to provide the fellowship God desired.

This blaming someone else for all our iniquities is one of the great evidences of sin

The real tragedy in the Garden of Eden was that Adam and Eve lost their purpose.

Men and women strive to know the “why” of everything.

demanding a satisfactory answer.

but lacking the overwhelming passion of being in the holy presence of God.

sudden intensification of the presence of God,

resulting

in the spontaneous worsh...

it will never give you any answer for the purpose of your life.

you might stand up and charm the rest of the universe as you sing praises to the Lord Jesus Christ.

centerpiece of God’s affection;

We want things to look like us,

we want to create.

Man is the reflection of the glory of God,

Man’s supreme function through all eternity is to reflect God’s highest glory,

Man, made more like God than any creature, has become less like God than any creature.

exists to worship God first, not second;

Restore the harp within that has been broken.

deep calling unto deep.

God wants man to worship Him, and only redeemed man can worship Him acceptably. We are not unwanted children; God greatly desires our fellowship.

It was God seeking worship from Adam

God finds something in us that He put there for His personal pleasure. That “beauty” belongs to God.

the most natural thing

That which is not God can never satiate the heart exclusively created for God’s presence.

worship would continue to be the most natural thing

special instrument of music—offering

nobody can devise their own pattern of worship

So not only is it possible to have a religious experience apart from Christ, and apart from salvation, but it is also possible to have worship apart from Christ and apart from salvation.

but look what she was worshiping. Her worship was not directed in the right direction.

could not accept

incompatible with His holiness.

He accepts worship only when it is pure and directed by the Holy Spirit.

Only the Holy Spirit can worship God acceptably, and He must in us reflect back to God His own glory.

restore us again to the divine imperative of worship

you do not have to prime the pump.

Without the redemption by the blood of Jesus Christ, there is no salvation.

being heretical does not always mean that we are false.

We become heretics by picking and choosing among the Word of God what suits us at the time.