Tag: hollow worship

Now therefore, please forgive my sin and return with me so I can worship the Lord.”

Samuel replied to Saul, “I will not return with you. Because you rejected the word of the Lord… (1 Samuel 15:25-26)

Come back with me so I can bow in worship to the Lord your God.”

Then Samuel went back, following Saul, and Saul bowed down to the Lord. (1 Samuel 15:30-31)

Father, Saul professed a desire to worship you. But he had little idea what worship meant.

True worship is you having our hearts. All of our hearts.

David realized that:

You do not want a sacrifice, or I would give it;
you are not pleased with a burnt offering.

The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit.
You will not despise a broken and humbled heart, God. (Psalm 51:16-17)

Saul never did figure that out.

Because you didn’t have Saul’s heart, his “worship” meant nothing to you.

Lord, do you have my heart?

Have all of my heart.

Don’t ever let my idea of worship become as shallow as Saul’s.