1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
2 Do not be quick with your mouth,
do not be hasty in your heart
to utter anything before God.
God is in heaven
and you are on earth,
so let your words be few.
3 As a dream comes when there are many cares,
so the speech of a fool when there are many words.
I love this passage so much because there seems to be so much pressure in the church to always have something to say. Something encouraging, something prophetic, a Bible verse to share, anything. And sometimes (in my case, usually) we don't. There's nothing we can say. There's nothing we have to say.
I love that first verse...Go near to listen rather than to sacrifice...while worship is such an important part of our lives as believers, the best, richest thing is to learn. David, a true worshipper after God's own heart, would say to God, "Teach me Your ways." (Psalm 25:4) I daresay David was the master of this art, because while so often he says, "praise the Lord, all your people! Laud Him, etc.." he gets down to business and says, "Lord, teach me Your ways."
That, I firmly believe, should be the cry of all worshippers' (and in that, all believers, given we're all worshippers :) ) hearts. Because since worship begins with God, we can't possibly worship until God teaches us something about Himself--worship is a response. Worship is a response to who God is, and we know who God is through two ways--the Bible, and Jesus. The Bible teaches us what God has done, and Jesus teaches us who God is through His life. That is the initiator of true worship.
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