We've been thinking about worship this week on the podcast, and here's a question, what

have been your most memorable experiences of worship?

I imagine if this were a phone in program, we could spend the rest of it listening to

one another, giving very different stories about our memories of worship that has brought

us into the presence of God.

For some of us, it might be the first time we were in a very large gathering and listening

to people praising God together.

For others of us, it might have been worship in a rural place in a faraway country with

Christians who had very little but hearts full of praise.

And for some of us, it might be an occasion when we felt the density of worship in the singing

or the power of the Word of God in the preaching or the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in

the celebration of the Lord's supper.

No doubt each one of us has his or her own special memory.

But the thing that binds them together as we've been reflecting is that on those occasions

we have become conscious of the presence of the Lord with us.

He's promised always to be with us, but he's also promised to manifest himself to us.

As we respond to him in love and in worship, remember how Jesus says in the farewell discourse

that when we come to him in obedience and trust and love through the Holy Spirit, the Father

and the Son come to us and make our home with us.

And when we are engaged in that kind of worship, I think we feel at last we have come home.

There's a very interesting statement in the Westminster Confession of Faith when it

speaks about the sacraments, but I think it applies to our worship in general.

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