Worship

We were created to value God. If we don’t give God the ultimate value in our lives, we will merely substitute something else into that place of priority. In short, we are always worshiping. One of the most important things that we can do during our walk with God is evaluate what it is that we are centering our lives on; what it is we are worshiping. That is a reflective side of worship. The other part is that we were made to worship God, when we do that, we fulfill our designed purpose. When thinking about the meaning behind the word ‘worship’ I got to thinking, Isn’t the Lord worth my very best living everyday? Worship is not just what people do when they come together on Sunday mornings. Worship is how we live our lives. Worship comes from within, not from without. It doesn’t matter what my physical attitude is or what music I use to convey the messages contained in my heart. What matters most is the attitude of my heart. It struck me this week that getting ready or preparing to worship should be more like getting ready for an event like a wedding rather than simply getting ready to go out to dinner. When I come to worship, I should expect that something is going to happen. I go to church to worship the living God after all. I Realized that worship begins in my daily walk with God. I should be consciously and actively living and worshiping before the presence of God. So I tried to continually pray, sing songs and worship God in every part of my life these past few weeks. If God is going to do something in my life, it will be God doing it and it will be because I am opening myself to Him doing that to me in my life. I tried to find ways to worship God everyday, realizing that everything I do is an act of worship if my heart is in the right place. I found that when you have this mindset then even the everyday annoyances and distractions can be used by God to convey messages to me. As I worship God, He will continue to change me to be more and more the person that He wants me to be. This is a discipline that I am going to continue working on and building up in my life in order to truly see the big picture that God has in store for me.