I'm not sure I get this worship thing. Probably not a good revelation, considering I'm a worship pastor. How is it that when we really come before God with attitudes of worship, seeking only to lift His name higher and spread His fame, we come away feeling so good ourselves? No wonder we argue as a church so much about the music we "like to worship to" and we have become "connoisseurs" of worship - "I didn't like that service" or "I didn't get anything out of that." It is completely not about us - but then somehow, when we really make it not about us, it's when we receive the most elation from our time with God. Perhaps because His Spirit is then the most present? He does inhabit the praises of His people (Psalm 22:3). Hmmm..... The question then becomes how do we retain the purity of our original hearts of worship, knowing that the purer we worship Him, the more we will see Him and sense Him. How does it then not get turned around and become about us? Oh, I know - focus again on Him - His face, His heart, His person, His glory. I'm pretty sure when we really look at God, our only response is going to be to fall down and worship. Guess that's what's called "worshipping in truth" (John 4:23-24).

"Yet You are holy, O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel." (Psalm 22:3)

"But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." (John 4:23-24)