What is worship

​What is the heart of worship? Number one, worship involves a recognition. Worship doesn’t begin with a song. Worship begins when you focus on a biblical truth about God. We see Isaiah doing this when he has a vision of the throne of God and sees the special angels flying around the throne saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts, the whole earth is full of His glory.” Worship begins with a recognition but worship also involves a response to that truth about God. Worship is all that we are responding to all that God is. I’m not simply talking about an emotional response as we sing, though that's good. It has to be more than that. If your worship is not any deeper than an emotional response you really haven't worshiped. Notice what it included with Isaiah. First, there was a response of confession as he recognizes that he was a man of unclean lips. When you're really focusing on a truth of God, one of the things that will become very real to you are the sins in your own life that you need to correct. With Isaiah it also involved a response of commitment as he says to the Lord, “Here am I. Send me.” Folks, listen. True, genuine worship results in a deeper spiritual commitment.