‘The highest form of worship is obedience’ – Elisabeth Elliot

Obedience as worship? The thought is almost offensive.

Because we want our worship to be comfortable, confined to Bible reading, song singing, church attendance, and nothing more. But true worship is costly because true worship is the right response of our whole lives (heart, soul, mind, and strength) to God’s revelation of Himself.

And He has revealed Himself in the person and work of Jesus Christ (2 Cor 4:6).

The One who…

…did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself (Phil 2:6-7).

…came not to be served, but to serve (Matt 20:28).

….came not to do His own will, but the will of the Father (Jn 6:38, Matt 26:39).

…became obedient to the point of death (Phil 2:8).

Our worship is in response to that God. The real offense is not the obedience He requires – deny yourself, take up your cross, follow Me (Matt 16:24) – but how much we desire to withhold