Scottish evangelist Henry Drummond once said, “Make Christ your constant companion … Ten minutes spent in his society every day, two minutes if it be face to face and heart to heart, will make the whole day different.” This is a great truth, but I think I would alter it a bit. It would be more correct to say, “It will make YOU different.” The significance of worship, both private and public, is what it does to us. Worship helps us in many ways:
- It provides the fellowship of mutual encouragement and support in right living.
- It leads us to express our praise and thanksgiving to God for his blessings.
- It gives us to a new perspective on life by deepening our insights and broadening our outlook.
- It supplies comfort to our discouraged and downhearted spirits.
- It brings us face to face not only with our sins but also with he who has the power to forgive sins.
- It shows us the need for the world and leads us to commit ourselves to helping meet that need.
How sad it is that many people go on, week after week, treading a dreary treadmill of fear, discouragement, and dull routine when attendance at a worship service might have changed all that.