Jason Helopoulos

What McShane is picking up is what we've been talking about over these lectures, is that what is worship above all?

It's just dwelling with God and God dwelling with us.

And what McShane is pointing out is this is the great heart cry of the Christian.

I just want to be with my God.

I just want to dwell with my God.

And so there is a draw and there is a pull to getting away in secret worship with him.

If that is true, why is it?

What are the benefits of getting away with the Lord in secret worship?

Well, one is that we become more like him.

This is one of the great draws of private worship, of secret worship, is that we want to become more like the one we love.

And so we want to spend time with him.

And if you've noticed, it's often true, isn't it, that older couples that have been together for 50, 60 years, married together, that they begin to look like each other.

Sometimes there's a physical resemblance.

Not quite sure how that works.

But there's often an intellectual resemblance.

and there's an emotional resemblance.

Why?

Because they've dwelt together for so long that they've begun to look like each other and sound like each other and be affected by the same things.

The Christian, as he or she spends time with his or her Lord, there's just a resemblance that begins to happen.

We just get conformed more and more to his likeness because we've just been dwelling with him.