God is not enlarged by our worship of Him nor is He somehow improved by it. We cannot add to Him nor can we subtract from Him. But we are enlarged by His gracious gifts and improved by His work in us and we are added to by His mercy and diminished by the lack of it.
In other words, the benefit of worship is not in the worship but in the doing of what the Lord asks us to do (hear, eat, drink, pray…) because He is at work in them even more than we are. Let me put it another way. Worship does not provide other things—it is not a means to get something greater or more profound. Worship provides its own reward in the God who comes to us where He has promised, delivers to us the grace our Lord has earned, and shows to us the mercy that forgives our sins, redeems our life from the grave, and saves us to be His own now and forevermore.
God Is Not Improved. . . but We Are. . .
Pr. Larry Peters
Pr. Larry Peters
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