Glory silences the bragging self-congratulating pride of people. Worship ought to take our thoughts off of ourselves, if just for an hour or so. It considers the nature, the attributes, the perfections of God, and in that glimpse many benefits are set free to work in very personal and even confrontational effect.

The majesty of God is instantly humbling. And it moves us to admire, to extol, even to drive us to God with wonder and then to measure ourselves by that glorious vision of God. The goodness of God ought to expose our sin, but more, it should lead us to a love of the perfections of God, and call us to honor our Savior for his sinlessness. If we allow these splendors to do their work in us, there may result a yearning for the help of God that we might live as we ought.

No vision of God can leave us unaffected. Every perfection in God is worthy of worship. Seeing God gives us a clarity about ourselves that is acquired in no other activity.