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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 25, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, No. 5.

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Worship.

ONE of those elements which must always enter into acceptable worship, is submission to God. He can never accept an offering at our hands while we ourselves refuse to bow before him with our own hearts. Obedience to God's revealed will is another element of true worship. That is not worship which consists in the performance of acts which God never commanded. Nor can our acts of outward obedience be the acceptable worship of God, unless our hearts rightly enter into them. The honor of God must be the highest object in view. And men cannot seek the honor of God alone unless they do truly love him. The love of God must be shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Spirit. Then they can offer hallowed fire before the Lord. How little of pure worship is offered from our dark world! How few are guided in their worship by the truth of God! And not even all of these are deeply imbued with the sanctifying influence of the Spirit of Christ. All who enter the city of God will be the worshipers of God. But this great lesson is to be learned in this present life.