Worship

Its been a long time since I was last writing on here but after much persuasion off my girlfriend (Esther) i am back.

Recently I have been looking at the importance of worship. What does worship mean to us today as Christians. I often think we have many misconceptions of what worship really is. We often think of a Sunday morning when we are in church or the latest album from Hillsong. While these things are certainly factors or part of worship, actually worship is so much more.

The bible tells us that worship is essential to us as Christians, it is not something done only once a week, or when we put the CD on in the car, it is the main purpose of our lives as Christians. Worship is living to honour and praise our God. We can do this in a number of ways from praying, singing to the way we live and serve others. The bible also tells us how we should worship in John Ch 4 v 23-24 Jesus tells us we should worship in spirit and truth.

Worship is an attitude of spirit. Since it’s an internal, individual action, it should be done all the time in our lives regardless of what our situation or position is. Only Christians can truly worship as we must do this “in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24). The only way we can do this is if we have received Jesus into our lives. Once we have become a Christian we receive God spirit in our lives. It makes sense if you think about it without God Spirit in us how can we worship in the Spirit. Also God is the truth so without God's Spirit we are unable to worship our God truly. Worship should be God centred because that is what true worship is.

Why should we want to worship, well firstly and quite simply because it was what we have been made for. God made us so we would be able to communicate with him, we broke that by sin, so we worship God to communicate with him to honor and praise him. Secondly because of the amazing gift of salvation. How can we ever thank God that he loved us so much that he sent his only son Jesus to die for us. Jesus took our place and now we are free. We can now experience God in very real way through his word (the bible) and his Spirit which he has given to us. This is something in which we should be constantly grateful for, thanking and praising God for loving me so much. Thirdly we should worship God because we can, sometimes it will not be easy, while other times we will have plenty of things to be thankful for.

Worship is not about us having a good time it is completely about God. That is not to say God will not bless us in our worship, in fact our God is so good and loving often worshiping him is great and we feel brilliant. There will be times though when its hard maybe when we are suffering or feel alone, but still we should say I will worship and praise my God. Let us remember that our God is Creator of all things, the Savior of the World and the one who provides for us and keeps us safe. Let us thank him and worship him in all things.