Bradley K. Tuttle, Author at How Can We Not Worship Him?

King Jesus

Who did the Father decide would be the first to worship His Son? It was the lowly shepherds who went to see their newborn King and left “glorifying and praising God” (Luke 2:20).

Accompanying the angel’s announcement was a multitude of the heavenly host praising God declaring “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!” (Luke 2:13–14).

Shepherds, and wise men from the East asked, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him?” (Matt. 2:1–2).

We also read in verse 10 and 11 that “When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. And when they had come into the house, they saw the young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped Him, and presented gifts to Him.”

We all should emulate this humble and honorable act of paying “homage to royalty” to our eternal King of kings.

Our King Jesus is most worthy of our gifts of exuberant praise and deepest, sincerest, extravagant worship.

Rejoice

Praise and worship preceded the birth of our Savior. We read in Luke 1:26–28 how God sent the angel Gabriel to a virgin named Mary. The very first word from Gabriel was “Rejoice,” which is the Greek word chairo and means: cheer, happy, hail, joy, and rejoice.

Luke 1:31–33, where Gabriel addressed Mary, fills me with joy and amazement: “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom, there will be no end.”

Is not the One who reigns forever and ever worthy of this kind of praise and worship?

Do you feel this kind of praise and worship tugging on your heart to lay all hesitancy down, to say “No more” to apathy and complacency, to absolutely give your all to the only One who is worthy of our passionate and persistent praise and worship?

Rejoice! What a fun-filled, expressive word that causes smiles on our faces. May we allow the joy of Jesus to fill us to overflowing so we cannot help but spread His joy to all with whom we come in contact.