What is family worship? (Click the arrow to the left)
As Christians, particularly Christian men, we are responsible to lead our households with strength and resolve in the ways of Christ. Leading our families in devotions and family worship is one way to lead our families, raising our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, Jesus Christ (cf. Deuteronomy 6:7; Ephesians 6:4).
In my house, we do morning and evenings. In the morning after we eat breakfast together, we all have our quiet times. We read our Bibles seperately and journal what we see. In the evenings before bed, we talk about what we saw in our morning Bible reading, I share my insight from my own devotional time, we ask questions from the New City Catechism, we sing a couple worship songs together, and then we pray as a family. Family worship doesn’t have to look like this. It may look different for every household, but I want to invite you to join me in leading our families well. Every weekday on this blog, I want to provide a guide for fathers to lead their families in some form of family worship. If your household doesn’t have a father, I believe the responsibility falls to the mother. Design a routine that works for your family, but be intentional about leading in the only way that matters instead of getting too caught up with the affairs of this world. Every Christian man is the pastor of his home. I believe the most important thing we can do for our children is (1) lead them in the home and (2) be faithful to the church as a family. As the family goes, so goes the nation. Our job as pastors to our family matters.
Isaiah 41:21-29
21 “Present your case,” the Lord says.
“Bring forward your strong arguments,”
The King of Jacob says.
22 Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place;
As for the former events, declare what they were,
That we may consider them and know their outcome.
Or announce to us what is coming;
23 Declare the things that are going to come afterward,
That we may know that you are gods;
Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.
24 Behold, you are of no account,
And your work amounts to nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.
25 “I have aroused one from the north, and he has come;
From the rising of the sun he will call on My name;
And he will come upon rulers as upon mortar,
Even as the potter treads clay.”
26 Who has declared this from the beginning, that we might know?
Or from former times, that we may say, “He is right!”?
Surely there was no one who declared,
Surely there was no one who proclaimed,
Surely there was no one who heard your words.
27 “Formerly I said to Zion, ‘Behold, here they are.’
And to Jerusalem, ‘I will give a messenger of good news.’
28 “But when I look, there is no one,
And there is no counselor among them
Who, if I ask, can give an answer.
29 “Behold, all of them are false;
Their works are worthless,
Their molten images are wind and emptiness.
Continuing to Isaiah 41, 700 years before Jesus’s birth, Yahweh challenged all the so-called gods Israel encountered stories about among the nations. Speaking though Isaiah to those so-called gods, Yahweh challenged them to submit the case for their own existence because He doesn’t believe they are actually there.
God challenges the fake gods to tell of past events. They weren’t there to observe them. He challenged them to recite the future, then they can prove themselves. They could not. Any so-called “god” other than Yahweh proves to be nothing and its supposed work is worthless.
Yahweh has not challenged the fake gods to do something He hasn’t already done. He predicted many of the world’s major events through His prophets. His prophets had yet to be wrong. In the next chapter of Isaiah, Yahweh will would make another prediction and provide proof of the coming messiah, His servant.
These other so-called gods and people who pretend to be gods as if they could know origins or endings are a delusion. There is only one, and His name is Yahweh, or “I am.”
Today’s question from the New City Catechism:
Q- What is prayer?
A- Prayer is pouring out our hearts to God.
Psalm 62:8 says,
8 Trust in Him at all times, O people;
Pour out your heart before Him;
God is a refuge for us.
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