How would you describe the way you worship God? Do we understand the essence of our worship? Do we go through the motions of worshiping God, yet lack sincerity?
In our text, when Solomon tells us to "guard our steps", when we come to the house of God, he is not cautioning us on physical stability, but he is wanting us to take heed to our thoughts, and our words.
Too often in our worship services we find ourselves talking more than we are listening. The "sacrifice of fools" is the giving of hypocritical prayers, and the hasty and insincere words, that we present before God.
In (v.2) Solomon says: "...let your words be few.." There is value in being silent for a time, and, allowing God to speak to us, instead of us doing all the talking, and saying things that we don't really mean.
I believe that Solomon is trying to get to the heart of what true, genuine worship, should be. When we come before God (Not just at the house of God) but wherever we are, we are to come to Him with humility, and sincerity of heart.
When we sing together, pray together, observe the Lord's Supper, and hear the words of the sermon preached, may our hearts be focused on how we can be honest with God, and not appealing to the praise of men.
May our worship be as the words of a song written and recorded by Steven Curtis Chapman: " Got To Be True." May all that we say, and do, before God, be sincere, and true! (GP)
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