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The Nature of Worship


The Psalmist compares the songs of the stream to the clapping of our hands in worship to our God Most High. 





Psalm 98:8  (AMPC)
8 Let the rivers clap their hands; together let the hills sing for joy.




Isaiah compares the branches of the trees raised with the rustling of their leaves to us raising our hands as  we clap our hands in worship to the Lord God Almighty.




Isaiah 55:12 (AMPC)
12 For you shall go out [from the spiritual exile caused by sin and evil into the homeland] with joy and be led forth [by your Leader, the Lord Himself, and His word] with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.




Isaiah compares the sounds of the hills with the birds happily signing and the branches of the trees with leaves rustling to our worship of our God who sees.



Psalm 47:1 (AMPC)
O clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph and songs of joy!




We are to worship with our hands and voice in the worship of our God our provider.




1 Timothy 2:8  (AMPC)
8 I desire therefore that in every place men should pray, without anger or quarreling or resentment or doubt [in their minds], lifting up holy hands.

M. H. Dennis
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