True Worship

I think it is an universal issue that people generally have the wrong idea of worship. "I enjoyed the songs this morning, I was really able to enter into worship", they say. Or how about this one....."There was something going on with the sound this morning. I wasn't able to inter into worship". Here's another good one...... "The praise songs you did were great, but the worship songs didn't flow very well". I understand what people are trying to say in statements like these, but the theology behind it is wrong. I believe that if we get our theology on biblical worship down, our attitude behind worship will change.


The first thing we must realize about worship is that it is not an event, part of a service, time of day, or name given to a type of church service. It is not a style of music. It is not the slower selection of songs that we do on Sunday morning. Worship isn't just what we do when we are at church. It is not smoke and color lights. It does not start with a fast song and end with a slow song. It is not the congregational singing of "Just As I Am".


Each of us were created for one main purpose, to worship God. We are all born worshipers. Worship is wired in each and every one of us. It is the universal thing that God created all of us to do. Worship isn't something we have a choice in. It is wired in our DNA. 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year, we are worshiping. It's not what we do, it's who we are. We are always worshiping. The question has never been if we worship, the question is what we worship.


Finding out what we worship is pretty easy really. You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your loyalty. At the end of that trail you'll find a throne; and whatever, or whomever, is on that throne is what you value the most. Resting on that very throne is what you worship.


Keep this in mind as you go through your week. We are always worshiping. You, my friend.....are a worshiper! Worship is a lifestyle. Making God the object of our worship is a discipline we must all practice.