Psalm 95:6-7 –
<6>Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker, <7>for he is our God. We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care
Now sees a good opportunity to talk about the word worship. We had an adventure at O2, which is 12 Stone’s quarterly communion and worship night that discussed the 4 Hebrew to English translations of worship (there are many more actually). Schachah, barach, yadah and halal make up the most common words translated to the English word worship. Halal means jump up and down and sing praises, which is the most common English interpretation of worship. Yadah is holding ones hands out standing, while barach is kneeling. Finally this verse uses schachah, which mean kneel with your face to the ground or total submission.
Schachah is actually the most common word which gets translated to worship by about 80%!! So while we think getting our “worship on” is singing praises, throwing our hands in the air and jumping up and down it’s actually more reverent. So it may be time to review how we all “worship” God. This does not mean there is not a time and a place for getting “wild” about God. But the majority of our time “worshiping” Him should be in a humble, prostrate position!
These verses imply the kneeling form of worship and tell us why! God is so much larger than any of us can imagine. The easiest way is to compare space to God, both are equally unimaginable. Think of where space “ends” and then what is on the other side? It never stops! That IS God in a nut shell, we will never fully understand or grasp who or what God really is since it would be beyond our understanding. So when “worshiping” God we must first and foremost be totally submissive, before jumping up and down waving our arms in praise.