Sunday, November 20, 2011

AC 1153 - true worship is adoration of the Lord in humbleness

AC 1153
In general, all the diversities of external,
as also of internal worship,
are according to the adoration of the Lord in the worship;
and the adoration is according to the love to the Lord
and the love toward the neighbor.
For the Lord is present in love,
and thereby in worship . . ..

[2] . . . all true worship consists in adoration of the Lord,
adoration of the Lord in being humble,
and humbleness in one's acknowledgment
that in himself there is nothing living, and nothing good,
but that all within him is dead, yea, cadaverous;
and in the acknowledgment
that everything living and everything good is from the Lord.
The more a person acknowledges these things,
not with the mouth, but with the heart,
the more he is humble;
and consequently the more he is in adoration, that is, in true worship,
and the more he is in love and charity, and the more in happiness.
The one is in the other, so conjoined as to be inseparable.

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