Praise God—it is almost Sunday! We *get* to go to church! Here is Thomas Watson, from his, "A Body of Divinity" book. He is dealing with our chief end of glorifying God here. . . .
"Glorifying God consists in adoration, or worship. Psa. 29:2: 'Give to the Lord the glory due His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.' There is a twofold worship: 1) A civil reverence which we give to persons of honor. Gen. 23:7: 'Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the children of Heth.' Piety is no enemy to courtesy. And, 2) A divine worship which we give to God as His royal prerogative. Neh 8:6: 'They bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces towards the ground.'"This divine worship God is something about which God is very jealous; it is the apple of His eye, the pearl of His crown—which He guards, as He did the tree of life, with cherubim and a flaming sword, that no man may come near it to violate it.
"Divine worship must be such as God Himself has appointed, otherwise it is offering strange fire, (Lev. 10:1). The Lord had Moses make the tabernacle, 'according to the pattern in the mount,' (Exod. 25:40). He must not leave out anything out of the pattern, nor add anything to it. If God was so exact and specific about the place of worship, how careful will He be about the matter of His worship! Surely here everything must be according to the pattern pre-scribed in His word."
