Sometimes worship is standing tall with hands raised in a multitude where the music is amazing and the lyrics are biblical and the joy in your heart is overflowing. You can’t help but sing because of the gratitude and delight welling up inside you has to come out and the most natural venue is through your voice.
Sometimes worship is when you’re alone. When all you can do is crawl up into your Abba’s lap holding onto the pieces of your broken heart. All you can do is sit and be still while His healing washes over you, and the only form of praise you can give are the frozen tears thawing and falling at His feet.
Sometimes worship is folding laundry or paying bills or cleaning the house. The mundane and ordinary stuff. But instead of viewing it as another chore, you view it as a way to serve God. You offer your laundry, your bills, your housecleaning as a living sacrifice and it becomes worship.
Sometimes worship means learning to open up and be transparent with others and share your heartaches and fears. Sometimes worship means learning to be comfortable alone with the silence of a dark room and learning to distinguish that still, small Voice that is only audible when you have ceased striving and are still before Jesus.
Worship is not an event or an activity that you schedule. It is a lifestyle that you cultivate, a discipline that you form, and a habit that you develop. Worship is far more than singing a song. Worship at its best encompasses everything you are and everything you do declaring the great worth of Jesus for the world to see.
So if Jesus is the highest value and the greatest worth, then why do I place my hopes and expectations and worth in something (or someone) else? It doesn’t make sense, but I still do. A friend described idolatry is taking a good desire and making it the ultimate desire. Worship is a reminder to ourselves that the ultimate absolute fulfillment of any and every desire of our hearts can only be found in Jesus.
So make it a priority to be the best worshipper you can be, at whatever cost. All that practice will make you a better worshipper when you get Home and see Jesus face to face.
Amen and amen.
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This is wonderful, Greg. I loved Mrs. Johnson! And so many more. And I pray that I will have the influence you speak of here as I teach my own children.
The above comment goes with the teacher post, obviously.
First let me say that I do not believe in dumbing down family worship or the worship of the church for that matter for small children. We aim our family worship at Mom Dad and our older children nineteen and sixteen while recognizing the need to bring the younger children five two one and newborn along. Our philosophy is simple our younger children do not need to be entertained they need to be taught. They need to see a picture of family worship that calls them upward. . This is a bit of a departure from the current child-centered philosophy dominating the burgeoning family worship movement. In that sense there s some good news and some bad news. The good news is people are waking up to this crucial practice. The bad news is people are viewing this practice through the lens of the current watered-down worship environment of modern evangelicalism and worse the media-driven high-energy world-mimicking KidZone experience of the modern Children s Church. As a result parents are trying to compete with the entertainment culture and capture the attention of their preschoolers on a daily basis. STOP! This is insane. You can t compete with Barney and Sesame Street or KidZone nor should you try..