Worship is the rising up to God again from the believer, or from the Church, of His own thoughts about His beloved Son, and about what He has done.
Confession is not worship. We have constantly to confess before worship, because we cannot worship while there is a spot on the conscience, but if we stop there, we know not worship.
It is when I have passed through the blood of atonement, and (if needed) have used the sin and trespass offering, that I have fellowship with God, which is being led, through the power of the Holy Ghost, into God's estimate of the beauty and the humiliation of Christ. It is when resting, in the Spirit, between the Father and the Son [that I have this fellowship]; not telling about my sins—for God's mind is not filled with my sins, nor is the Holy Ghost taken up with thoughts about my sins - but with that in Jesus which put my sins away.
Worship is being nothing, and having God's thoughts about Jesus rolling through my soul.
When Jesus, Jesus, is everything, I am acting in the power of that life which is by and by more fully to be manifested. If we act upon this life, we shall then, from Jesus risen, have the flow of glory in our souls; for we are in Him now, and have the mind of God about His Son. God is not occupied with what I am, but with what Christ is.
God wants us, as His children, to know, not only that we are within the Father's house, but within the Father's bosom also. He wants to have our minds filled with a volume of thoughts about His Christ, and when a saint is full of this, and it ascends up to God, that is worship. And there is transforming power in Christ to change us into His likeness while we are in communion with Him and with the Father about Him.
Worship is the being lost in wonder at what we find in God and in Christ.
When the Spirit has led us to know the blood on the Mercy-seat, He does not send us back to feed with the swine, but spends His time in taking of the things of Jesus and showing them to us, and thus supplies food for worship.
In the burnt, meat, and peace offerings, we have Christ presented to us in type as the subject for worship. In the burnt offering, His perfect self-renunciation and devotedness to God, even to the death; in the meat offering, His life in action; in the peace offering, as the link between God and the Church, that on which God and the Church together feed in happy communion. When this worship is interrupted by sin or defilement, we find, in the type of the sin and trespass offering, that God has already made provision beforehand in Christ, to restore the soul, as soon as confession is made, to the power of worshipping.
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