The Purpose of Man: Designed to Worship

by A.W. Tozer

are not worshiping God in all your life, then you are not worshiping Him acceptably in any area of your life.

It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.

My personal worship tells something about God and me.

The heart must be empty before God can enter.

The most natural thing in the universe is for the Creator to indwell the soul of man.

So there is moral beauty in the Lord Jesus Christ, and He is the Lord of all beauty of moral form and moral texture. He is the Lord of it all.

In human nature is planted the desire and need to love.

Our Lord Jesus Christ came down and found the human race like that: consumptive, wan, pale-faced and dying, and He took on Himself all her death and rose the third day and took all the pathos out and all of the pity out. Now she comes leaning on the arm of her beloved. She comes walking into the presence of God, and He presents her not as a poor pitiful wretch whose forehead He kissed when she was dead, but as His happy bright-eyed bride, to be partaker with all the saints, worthy to stand beside Him and be His bride in the glory. What is her authority, what is her right and by what authority does she walk into the presence of God?

The Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross that He might make His people worshipers of God.

The purpose of God is that He might redeem us, put us all in the heavenly choir and keep us there singing His praises and showing forth His excellencies while the ages roll. This is the purpose of God in redemption.

To maintain a lifestyle of worship, we must attend to it on a daily basis.

uncontrollably in love with God.

Work without worship is totally unacceptable to God.

Cultivate friendships with those who have made He who is the Friend of sinners their constant Companion.

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.