Backwards

 I came across this quote earlier this morning on Keith and Kristyn Getty’s Instagram feed.

“How we worship shapes how we see God, how we see ourselves, how we see our neighbor, and how we see the Christian life."

- Matt Boswell at Sing2025

I have to disagree with Matt Boswell. I think what he said is backwards.

The truth is this: how we view God shapes how we worship. When we have a high view of God, then not only is our worship properly focused, but we have a right view of others as well as a right view of how to live the Christian life.

However, when we have a high view of self or a wrong view of God (viewing God as we wish Him to be rather than as He is), our worship of God is distorted.

We need to think carefully before we blindly accept everything we read or hear, even from people whose work we admire. We must be careful to hold everything we read and hear up to the plumbline of scripture.

“……examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things are so.” Acts 14:11 NASB