“He demands our worship, our obedience, our prostration. Do we suppose that they can do Him any good, or fear, like the chorus in Milton, that human irreverence can bring about ‘His glory’s diminution’? A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. But God wills our good, and our good is to love Him (with that responsive love proper to creatures) and to love Him we must know Him: and if we know Him, we shall in fact fall on our faces. If we do not, that only shows that what we are trying to love is not yet God—though it may be the nearest approximation to God which our thought and fantasy can attain” (C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain).

God doesn’t need our worship and adoration. In fact, God doesn’t need us. God has no need at all because God is in Himself completely self-sufficient and whole.

It’s we who need to worship God to remind us that we in fact are not God. God is outside of us and is completely other, not just a better, faster, stronger version of us. As I read earlier, God and His ways are beyond our complete understanding or otherwise we wouldn’t need trust. We wouldn’t need faith.

We worship God because there’s no way we could have ever known God on our own. We would never have even sought God on our own if God hadn’t first sought us. We worship God because He has made Himself known to us in a way that we could understand and in a way that didn’t destroy us.

Remember that if we in our present state saw God in all His glory as He is, we would die. It would be too much for our senses and all our capacity. The finite could never hope to grasp the infinite.

But God made Himself Jesus so we could understand God.

And so we worship.