The Purpose of Man-Designed to Worship

I am at breakfast Saturday morning, reading A.W. Tozier's The Purpose of Man-Designed to Worship, sitting at the table across from me are some teens and their basketball coach. As they are waiting for their food, the coach is giving them some last minute coaching instructions, as they are about to play a game at the nearby gym. He tells them all he wants to see from them is dribbling and passing, don't be selfish and take a stupid shot, be patient and work with your teammates to get the best shot available. In other words, he was teaching them discipline.


Tozier's whole ministry was about us disciplining ourselves into a real, worshipful relationship with our Creator. Tozier says:"If you major on knowing God and cultivate a sense of His presence in your daily life, practice the presence of God daily and seek to know the Holy Spirit in the scriptures, you will go a long way in serving your generation for God."

He also remarks that:

You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically and as empty as one spiritually."


Basicly what he is saying is we have a choice: either we can know about God just through the scriptures, or we can have the whole package. To know God so intimately we can recognize His voice when we need to hear from Him.

Our goal should be what Tozier's life was about:


Don't settle for the satisfaction of the needed appetite only, but to something bigger,

grander, and more eternal, that we might worship God and enjoy Him forever.



I recently saw the film Yes Man. Jim Carrey plays an unhappy, down on his luck guy. Upon the suggestion of a friend, Carrey goes to a self help guru's seminar called "Say Yes", in order to change his perspective on life. At the seminar he makes the sacred covenant of having to say yes to everything. Soon as he leaves, a homeless man asks him for a ride to the park. Carrey obliges. The next thing you know he is giving the homeless guy his cell phone to use and money! After he drops the man off, sure enough, his car runs out of gas, and his cell phone battery is now dead.

After trekking a few miles to the gas station, he meets the girl of his dreams. And so it went throughout the story. Everytime he said yes, no matter how bad it might have been , something good happened to him afterward.


When we say "yes" to worshipping God, and serving Him (even when it may look like it's a bad situation to get involved in) good things are bound to happen. Because it is a great, and mighty God that we serve. None of our actions will go in vain. As Tozier put it:



"Only cunning works of silver and gold should be offered to God."