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Psalm chapter 138, verse 2. I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name

for your steadfast love and your faithfulness. For you have exalted above all things,

your name and your word.

There's so much in this verse.

And I want to draw your attention to two things in particular.

One, this picture of David saying, I bow down towards your holy temple.

And I don't know how regular a practice this is in your life, both individually and your time

alone with the Lord, as well as corporately when you gather together with God's people.

But I just want to encourage you.

This is one of many, many, many places in the Bible where we see a physical posture of bowing down toward God in his holy presence

that needs to be a part of our personal and corporate worship. So when was the last time you

bow down on your knees or on your face before God?

And I want to encourage you.

Obviously, what we do on the outside should be a reflection of our hearts on the inside.

And I guess that's kind of the point.

Our hearts on the inside should be in awe of God, in reverence and fear of God and His holiness

and in worship, we should find ourselves bowing down often before Him, not just occasionally

or maybe even never.

And so I just want to encourage you to cultivate postures of awe

and reverence and fear and worship in your life again on your own nobody else is looking

and then together when you gather together with God's people, to bow down

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