“Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.” (Matthew 4:10)
“If worship does nothing else for us, it helps us discover the things that are important. Real worship will transform your life.” (Warren Wiersbe)
All human beings were created to worship. Everybody looks to something such as power, success, control etc or someone such as human leaders, rock stars etc to give their lives meaning. We may not consider our obsession with these as acts of worship, but they do. I remember when I went to rock band, Deftones live concert in Kuala Lumpur last February 2011; I was soo excited that I fall into idolizing them. (I repent!) Hundreds of young people including myself scream at the stage where Deftones were performing. You probably a fan of professional football or celebrity singers or obsess with cloth brandings, beware, you might worship them. Another common thing that I better not skip in this short article is that – most of Christian workers tend to worship is their work. Oswald Chambers writes, “The one concern of a worker should be concentration on God… without this… he is apt to get his work on his neck; there is no margin of body, mind or spirit free, consequently he becomes spent out and crushed.” Beware of worshipping your work!
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun defines ‘worship happens whenever we intentionally cherish God and value Him above all else in life. Worship reveals what is important to us.” Richard Foster defines it as “the human response to the divine initiative.” We worship what we value most. We worship what we think all day long. We worship what we invest on every day. Question: What or who do you value most, think all day long and invest to everyday? May you fix your eyes on the One who is worthy of our worship – God Almighty.
Worship is more than just going to Church on Sunday
Heaven’s calendar has 7 Holydays from Monday to Sunday. Worship Him on your Monday class, Tuesday games, Wednesday fellowship, Thursday gathering, Friday hang out, Saturday lunch and Sunday service. Every day is worship day!
Worship connect you with God
The heart of worship is to seek to know and love God in our own unique way. In our unique way I said because we are made unique and therefore, though we are one Body in Christ, we are from difference parts. Your style of worship might be difference from mine. One style of worship is not better than another. The quality of worship emerges from the heart and its focus.
Worship is not based on feeling
I heard sincere Christians said, “I don’t feel like I want to worship God” and “My spirit is not activating yet”. We got it all wrong! Worship is never a feeling; it’s an expression of the heart. So even if you don’t feel like it, even if worship has been discouraging and dry – Go, worship. Go, praying. Go, seek Him!
Worship is a way of life
It honors God when you take time to praise Him whenever you see His wisdom, power, direction, care and love in your life. When worship becomes the way of life, you will find yourself experiencing divine moments with God more and more.
To worship is to change.
If all this while you doing ‘worship’ and your spiritual life never change – then, all this while you’re not really worshipping God. I know it’s a hard statement, but the truth is remaining the same: to worship is to change! Real worship will transform your life!
Worship must be in Spirit and in Truth.
Come let us worship Him today and forever because He is worthy to be praise! Heaven’s citizen worship Jesus Christ as He reveals Himself saying, “You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things, and they exist because you created what you pleased.” (Revelation 4:11)
Related post: Work is Worship (CLICK HERE)
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References,
1. My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers, April 23
2. Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices that Transform Us by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
3. Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard Foster
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:) when i saw largest broadband.. it reminds me of avatar.. how they had prayed to Ewwa.. :) though I am not idolizing them.. when we worship God, we become close in spirit with other people that we might not even know 20 thousands miles from where we are standing physically.. how awesome is that!
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