Gospel Worship

"Learn what it is that you do when you come to worship God, and consider it
every time you come to perform any act of worship.  Truly this one thing would
be of marvelous use, and it would help forward to the next point of sanctifying
God's name.  You are all convinced of this, that it is your duty to worship God.
When you pray, you come to worship God.  When you come to hear His Word,
you come to worship Him.  And when you receive the sacrament, you worship
Him.
Now if I should come from one end of the congregation to the other and ask
every one of you this question, "It is your duty to worship God, is it not?"you
would all be ready to answer,"Yes!" And what do you do when you worship God?
I fear that this second question would perplex many of you.
You will say, "We must pray to God and serve Him, hear His Word and go to
communion," Yes, but what do your souls do in this work of worshipping God?
This should be the answer, and so you should think to yourselves and charge this
upon your own hearts: "I am now going to worship God, either in prayer, Word,
or sacraments.  I am now going to tender up that homage that is due from the
creature to the infinite Creator, so that I must so pray as I must manifest that high
respect that I owe to God as my Creator."  But to that I shall speak more afterward.
For now, only remember that you go to tender up that homage that you owe unto
God; and so every time you come to hear the Word, there is a profession that you
come to tender up that respect and homage that you owe the infinite God.  And
so it is likewise when you come to receive the sacrament."
Jeremiah Burroughs
Gospel Worship, Worship Worthy of God

Uncle D.