Yes, It's a hard concept to grasp. What kind of God creates EVERYTHING just to be recognized? For someone one who doesn't believe in the resurrection, this is what they see. Why would you want to worship a God who created everything just for his own self recognition. Worship goes beyond calling out recognition. To worship is a call to love. After God creates Adam and Eve his passion is to BE with them and to know them. However, after Adam and Eve eat Of the tree of knowledge the die spiritually, and are forever separated from God.
Genesis 2:17
"but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
After dying spiritually, being separated from God, man hides from God.
Genesis 3:8-9
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"
We can see God's desire to be with man. Man runs away, and God goes looking for him. This is God's passion, to intimately know his creation. Spending time with God is worship. Singing songs of Praise is worship. Spending time in God's word is worship. Spending time in prayer is worship.
In the life of Jesus we constantly see him spending time with God the Father. Even Christ, in the flesh, spends time in worship.
To me, this is amazing. That we have a God who is zealous to be with us, and to spend time with us , and to know us intimately. This is our God.
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