The Purpose of Man: Designed to Worship

by A.W. Tozer

God’s purpose in creating Adam and Eve is summed up in what they could do for God that nothing else in the whole creation could do. They had an exclusive on God shared by no other of God’s creation.

Love this quote fom A.W. Tozer

Religion always focuses on the externals, and Adam and Eve were consumed with their outward condition. They had lost the focus of their inward beauty and purpose, and no longer satisfied the criteria of fellowship with their Creator.

Because the enemy of man’s soul has mugged humanity, robbing them of their identity, men and women wander around in a spiritual and moral fog, not knowing who they are, what they are or where they are going.

What passes for worship in many churches today is anything and everything but what reflects the holy mind and nature of God or even pleases God.

The scientist has to come up with some complicated reasons of what this all means. The problem is, he never begins with God.

You are a mirror of the Almighty, and this is the reason you were created in the first place.

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

We are the other way around. We have such a tremendous tongue and such little use for it. We have a harp such as no other creature in God’s universe, but we play it so infrequently and so poorly.

His supreme purpose in making man was to have somebody capable to properly and sufficiently worship Him and satisfy His own heart.

Sin, therefore, is the unnatural thing. It is a foreign substance defiling man’s heart and life, repelling God’s gaze. Because of this condition in man, sin is natural, worship is unnatural; and so few people really do it.

Worship acceptable to God is based upon knowing the nature of God. Cain did not know the kind of God he was, and therefore thought that sin was nothing to God. This represented a gross misunderstanding of God’s nature.

Never has there been a time in Christian history where the Church has been more plagued with celebrities than today, especially in the music department.

Take the lyrics of the song that caused such uproar and give it to one of the dear old saints at church on Sunday. Make sure it is one of those saints with an impeccable reputation of holiness and unimpeachable Christian character. Usually this will be one of the saintly prayer warriors of the church. Have this person take these lyrics to the pulpit and quietly read them to the audience. If it does not create the same effect as the night before, maybe it was not the truth in those lyrics the people the night before were applauding but the performers.

Excellent illustration here. This should be used for contemporary christian music today

They do not compare Scripture with Scripture, which allows heretical doctrine to come in.

Man must be renewed. He must have an infusion of the Spirit of truth. Without an infusion of the Holy Ghost, there can be no true worship.

Amen!