A picture of worship

After Solomon finished building the temple he gathered all of the people together to dedicate the temple, place the ark of the Lord in its new home, and celebrate and worship. I love this description of their worship:

2 Chronicles 5:11-14 TNIV

The priests then withdrew from the Holy Place. All the priests who were there had consecrated themselves, regardless of their divisions. All the Levites who were musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang:

“He is good;

his love endures forever.”

Then the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud, and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God.

I wonder if we could ever lift our instruments and voices up together giving praise and thanks to God in worship such that the glory of God would prevent us from being able to perform the service.

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