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Limitations of human nature and the handicaps The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life Job 33:4

WORSHIPPING THE FATHER
WORSHIP THE LORD IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH

Worship-- the spiritual domain of the reality of religious experience, the personal realization of divine fellowship, the recognition of spirit values, the assurance of eternal survival, the ascent from the status of servants of God the joy and liberty of the sons of God.
This is the highest insight of the cosmic mind, the reverential and worshipful form of the cosmic discrimination.


The enlightened worlds all recognize and worship the Universal Father, the eternal maker and infinite upholder of all creation.

Worship: To honor; to show reverence for. Psalms95:O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For He is our God; and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
The Universal Father never imposes any form of arbitrary recognition, formal worship, or slavish service upon the intelligent will creatures of the universes. The evolutionary inhabitants of the worlds of time and space must of themselves--- in their own hearts-- recognize, love, and voluntarily worship Him. Psalms96: Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name: bring an offering, and come into His courts.
O worship the Lord in the beauty of His holiness: fear before Him, all the earth.

How unreasonable that you should not worship God because the limitations of human nature and the handicaps of our material creation makes it impossible for us to see Him. I find it easy and pleasant to worship one who is so great and at the same time so affectionately devoted to the uplifting ministry of His lowly creatures. Psalms 99:9Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

TRUE WORSHIP

Though the Paradise Deities, from the universe standpoint, are as one, in their spiritual relations with such beings as inhabit Urantia they are also three distinct and separate persons.
There is a difference between the Godheads in the matter of personal appeals, communion, and other intimate relations. In the highest sense, we worship the Universal Father and Him only. True , we can and do worship the Father as He is manifested in his Creator Sons, but it is the Father, directly or indirectly, who is worshiped and adored. John 4:21-24 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know that we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Worship is for its own sake; There is absolutely no self-request or other element of personal interest in true worship; we simply worship God for what we comprehend him to be. Worship ask nothing and expects nothing for the worshiper. We do not worship the Father because of anything we may derive from such veneration; we render such devotion and engage in such worship as a natural and spontaneous reaction to the recognition of the Father’s matchless personality and because of his lovable nature and adorable attributes. Exodus 34: For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

In nature the Son is wholly like the Spirit Father. When we worship the Universal Father, actually we at the same time worship God the Son and God the Spirit, God the Son is just as divinely real and eternal in nature as God the Father.

WORSHIP, the sincere pursuit of divine values and the wholehearted love of the divine Value---Giver.
WORSHIP is the highest privilege and the first duty of all created intelligences.
WORSHIP is the conscious and joyous act of recognizing and acknowledging the truth and fact of the intimate and personal relationships of the Creators with their creatures. The quality of worship is determined by the depth of creature perception; and as the knowledge of the infinite character of the Gods progresses, the act of worship becomes increasingly all--encompassing until it eventually attains the glory of the highest experiential delight and the most exquisite pleasure known to created beings.
This is the same renovated earth, the advanced planetary stage, that the olden seer envisioned when he wrote; “For, as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, so shall you and your children survive, and it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another and from one Sabbath to another all flesh shall come to worship before me; says the Lord”.
It is the mortals of such an age who are described as “a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, an exalted people; and you shall show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into this marvelous light”.

WORSHIP-- contemplation of the spiritual ---must alternate with service contact with material reality. Work should alternate with play; religion should be balanced by humor.
Profound philosophy should be relieved by rhythmic poetry. The strain of living --the time tension of personality should be relaxed by the restfulness of worship.
WORSHIP is intended to anticipate the better life ahead and then to reflect these new spiritual significances back onto the life which now is; worship is divinely creative.
WORSHIP is the technique of looking to the ONE for the inspiration of service to the many.
WORSHIP is the yardstick which measures the extent of the soul’s detachment from the material universe and its simultaneous and secure attachment to the spiritual realities of all creation.
WORSHIP is the act of a part identifying itself with the Whole; the finite with the Infinite; the son with the Father; time in the act of striking step with eternity.
WORSHIP is the act of the son’s personal communion with the divine Father, the assumption of refreshing, creative, fraternal, and romantic attitudes by the human soul-- spirit.

The Master prayed very little for himself, although he engaged in much worship of the nature of understanding communion with his Paradise Father. Luke 4: And Jesus answered and said to him, Get behind Me, Satan For it is written you shall worship the LORD your God and Him only you shall serve.
We worship God, first, because he is, then, because he is in us, and last, because we are in him.

May the Lord Bless the reading of his word for the edification of our soul…