When we focus on something, we lose focus on other things.
Posture portrays attitude.
Humility is seeing God as He is. – Louie Giglio
Jesus modeled perfect humility for us.
Biblical worship comes from a posture of humility.
Harold Best describes worship as a continuous outpouring. We are not created to worship God. That implies that God is somehow incomplete and needs our worship in order to be complete. Neither are we created for worship, because that would suggest that we can choose to worship or not. Instead, we are created as worshippers
Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears build on that to say, “…we are continually giving ourselves away or pouring ourselves out for a person, cause, experience, achievement, or status.”
Tim Keller describes sin as the “refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God… Most people think of sin primarily as ‘breaking divine rules,’ but… the very first of the Ten Commandments is to ‘have no other gods before me.’ So according to the Bible, the primary way to define sin is not just the doing of bad things, but the making of good things into ultimate things. It is seeking to establish a sense of self by making something else more central to your significance, purpose, and happiness than your relationship to God.” Eventually, anything that we put in place of God will crumble under the weight of being god to us.
