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Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: \u201cTo him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!\u201d The four living creatures said, \u201cAmen,\u201d and the elders fell down and worshiped. (Revelation 5:13-14).

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The book of Revelation is a Revelation from and about Jesus Christ.\xa0 Again and again throughout, John reiterates how this book centres on the \u201cWord of God and the testimony of Jesus.\u201d\xa0 It is therefore, a culmination of the all the previous sixty-five books of the Bible: all the Word of God that testifies to Jesus.

So, where do the all the previous sixty-five books of the Bible end when you put them all together and bring them into their true and proper focus as the testimony of Jesus Christ?\xa0 Well, they end here, in worship.\xa0\xa0 That\u2019s where.\xa0 It\u2019s the setting for the whole book of Revelation, really.\xa0 The Throne Room of Heaven is filled with worship given to Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb.

Pastor Michael reminded us yesterday that we come to God because he has already come to us in Jesus Christ.\xa0 Worship is our proper response to all the creation, salvation, and coming Kingdom that are ours in Christ Jesus.\xa0 Worship is giving all of ourselves to the one who gave everything to us.\xa0

As we glimpse the heavenly throne room, we see worship voiced through song and prayer, worship seen and touched through elders falling down on their knees, worship smelled through rising incense, worship tasted at the wedding feast of the lamb.\xa0 Worship involves all our five senses, it involves our bodies, hearts, minds, as well as our souls.\xa0 Worship is an expression of all that we are before the one who gave us our being.\xa0

And worship is not only ours to do.\xa0 Every creature in all creation is offering praise and song to God in John\u2019s vision.\xa0 In worship, we take our place as creatures before the Creator, which is an utterly proper posture: offering ourselves in humble submission to the one who humbly emptied himself of everything for us.\xa0

Far from being a reduction of who we are: these humble, self-giving postures of worship are actually the postures of our deepest freedom and fullness when offered to God.\xa0 The elders who fall down and worship are the very ones who reign and rule with Christ over the world: the epitome of our royal vocation as a kingdom and priests to serve our God.\xa0

Worship therefore, is a posture we carry through all of our working, studying, and living day by day.\xa0 A posture we carry in all our relationships, and especially a posture we carry in our relationship with God.\xa0 But it is not just a posture for Sundays or devotion time: it is a lived submission to God that carries through all of our life, relationships, and activities.\xa0 So, how\u2019s your worship posture today?

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