So this blog is going to be a little different. I'm going to talk about two subjects and I'm going to ask a few questions and I hope you will answer in your in your own way.
(You can worship in many way's, but this blog is going to be talking about singing and worshipping)
So what do you normally expect from worship? Just like little things, you know, like it's going to be like the last time, or it's going to be awesome and I'm going to have this encounter with God. Have you ever thought any of these things before you worshipped then were somewhat disappointed at the end?
Well I think the reality of it is that we need to stop having expectations of worship. If we want an encounter with God and want just to give Him our complete thanks, than we need to leave all the expectations at the door.
Now what about distractions? Tell me some distractions you have personally during worship. LIke for example what you're doing later, or singing really quiet so nobody can hear you, and we have the opposite where we sing loud so people can hear us. Well I could go on and on all day about different distractions we have but it all boils down to if we understand what the "Heart of Worship" is. What is it to you?
Mike Donehey said "I want to be so distracted by the beauty of Christ that I actually forget about myself altogether."
Well if this is the true "Heart of Worship" then what we need to do is forget about ourselves and put all our focus on God and God alone.
Like this one time I went to Scott's cafe for a church service and sat in the front row. At the end of Pastor Ken's message he played a couple songs. One of the songs just happened to be my favorite one. So I decided I was going to just give my all and worship God. So when I worship I like to stand so I did. I stared to worship with all my heart, but then I realized that I was in the front row. So I started to get red and hot and wondering what people were thinking and I did one of those one eye openers to see if any one was looking at me. But I was already standing and I could not just sit back down so I stayed standing. Then I just tried to worship the best I could but still I was distracted.
So we have those days also were we don't feel like worshiping. But we also have those days were we do want to do our daily devotion. So what do we do we take responsibility and just do it. Well in the book of Leviticus when the people wanted to bring in a Thank Offering it had to be perfect and without blemish. But then the weird thing is that when they killed it they would have to lay their head upon the head of the animal and then kill it. Now you may be asking "Alex why are you telling me this?" But the reality it of it is that this was their way of saying, "This is my offering and it is perfect and with out blemish." They took responsibly over there worship their offering.
Let's take responsibility of our worship.
