Worshipper's heart

As I see it…
I was just wondering…when was the last time that Christians went to church for just, you know, the main attraction? When was the last time that believers entered a building designed for worshipping the Most High God that that objective actually took place? How long has it been since there entered into the heart of each person present at a Christian worship service the person of Christ in his complete majesty, awe inspiring presence, and be the delight of each worshipper’s heart? When was the last time you walked through the doors of your favorite church building and your first thoughts were not who you would see, what classroom you needed to visit, how quickly you could make it to the restroom or wondered whether the music was going to be to your satisfaction? How long has it been since you attended a worship service and your sheer delight was to meet with other believers in the presence of a Holy God? When you thought to yourself, “I wonder what the Lord has in store for me from his Word today?” Or, have you lost your personal respect for the majesty of God? Has church attendance become just a step above a pool party at the YMCA or the social aura that accompanies meeting someone for lunch following church? While speaking of the importance of the transcendence of God, Tozer wrote many years ago: If some watcher or holy one who has spent his glad centuries by the sea of fire were to come to earth, how meaningless to him would be the ceaseless chatter of the busy tribes of men. How strange to him and how empty would sound the flat, stale, and profitless words heard in the average pulpit from week to week. And were such a one to speak on earth would he not speak of God? Would he not charm and fascinate his hearers with rapturous descriptions of the Godhead? And after hearing him could we ever again consent to listen to anything less than theology, the doctrine of God? Would we not thereafter demand of those who would presume to teach us that they speak to us from the mount of divine vision or remain silent altogether? Pastor and parishioner alike, it’s time we examined the state of our hearts for public (and private) worship!