Worship....
This was in response to Reverb (my Brother from another mother's Blog) -
I have just recently begun to take the word 'worship' out of the prison of church land...I now understand that to simply live is worship. I'm probably a day late and dollar short in getting this...But I am sometimes slow...
It isn't about getting worked up in the Spirit or raising my hands, or going to some special place to do it...These are activities that I do with my community of faith (or even alone) in a concentrated manner of focus on God. These things are good. These things are fun, I love these things. But they are only one aspect - a formal aspect of 'worship'. And the best worship IMHO cannot be planned or forced. It is not a 'should', it is not something that if we don't work it into our schedule we are somehow shorting God...The best worship I think happens when we don't even realize it...In laughing with friends. In eating a good meal. In slow dancing with your significant other. In looking at a sunrise and smiling. In loving another person with all that we have.
Jesus talks alot about nature...He says to watch the lilies of the field, the birds in the sky. They don't get worked up or worried, they don't stop and do anything special that is labeled 'worship'...They just do what they were made to do...LIVE. And in that, God takes pleasure...In that they point to the awesomeness of their Creator. Jesus also said that if his people didn't speak for Him, that the rocks would cry out...The rocks. Think about that...What do rocks do? They exist. Just where God placed them. And their very existence as rocks speak about the majesty of God. In essence I think he may have been saying that He doesn't really NEED people to DO a bunch of stuff. He is woven clearly throughout Creation. Jesus came to restore to us this simplicity. The relationship between God and His Creation that people destroyed when they decided they wanted to be able to manufacture their own value through the works of their hands. All along the only thing God wanted from us was to LIVE. And in doing so, come to know Him because He made us. We've turned it into so much other noise that His still, small voice sometimes gets drowned out....
I want to be Undignified in my enjoyment of LIFE. In doing so, I believe God's greatness will be seen.
I have just recently begun to take the word 'worship' out of the prison of church land...I now understand that to simply live is worship. I'm probably a day late and dollar short in getting this...But I am sometimes slow...
It isn't about getting worked up in the Spirit or raising my hands, or going to some special place to do it...These are activities that I do with my community of faith (or even alone) in a concentrated manner of focus on God. These things are good. These things are fun, I love these things. But they are only one aspect - a formal aspect of 'worship'. And the best worship IMHO cannot be planned or forced. It is not a 'should', it is not something that if we don't work it into our schedule we are somehow shorting God...The best worship I think happens when we don't even realize it...In laughing with friends. In eating a good meal. In slow dancing with your significant other. In looking at a sunrise and smiling. In loving another person with all that we have.
Jesus talks alot about nature...He says to watch the lilies of the field, the birds in the sky. They don't get worked up or worried, they don't stop and do anything special that is labeled 'worship'...They just do what they were made to do...LIVE. And in that, God takes pleasure...In that they point to the awesomeness of their Creator. Jesus also said that if his people didn't speak for Him, that the rocks would cry out...The rocks. Think about that...What do rocks do? They exist. Just where God placed them. And their very existence as rocks speak about the majesty of God. In essence I think he may have been saying that He doesn't really NEED people to DO a bunch of stuff. He is woven clearly throughout Creation. Jesus came to restore to us this simplicity. The relationship between God and His Creation that people destroyed when they decided they wanted to be able to manufacture their own value through the works of their hands. All along the only thing God wanted from us was to LIVE. And in doing so, come to know Him because He made us. We've turned it into so much other noise that His still, small voice sometimes gets drowned out....
I want to be Undignified in my enjoyment of LIFE. In doing so, I believe God's greatness will be seen.
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makes it actually sound desirable.