Thought for Wednesday, February 22nd

February 22, 2012

Let’s Get Past Just Praising and Let’s Get To Worshipping

Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and are created.

Revelation  4:11

Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.

Psalms 29:2

Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let is kneel before the Lord, our Maker!

Psalms 95:6

Quote of the Day

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.” – C. S. Lewis

Today’s Thoughts and Insights

It seems to me that in today’s Christian world the word ‘Worship’ is used way to loosely. 

Many consider the singing of songs in the Sunday morning service the full and total context of what it means to worship.  But this would be inaccurate.  It is indeed an act of worship; but it does not constitute the totality of what worship entails.

Worship is more than an isolated act or deed; rather it is a lifestyle of connected acts and deeds that culminate to equal a life of worship.

Worship is what we do day in and day out.  So what does your worship look like?  Do you worship the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul or do you worship Him intermittently, when your not busy giving everything else your total attention and focus.

To truly worship means to be consumed by the object of your affection..  How many times a day does God or the things of God’s kingdom, cross your mind?

I understand we have to work, cook, clean our homes and engage in other activities, but is God always on your heart and in your mind in all you do?  Does your first thought or reaction to almost every situation focus your words and deeds on doing something in a way or saying something that will glorify and honor God?

If not then you may still be only praising Him at times – not worshipping Him at all times.

Today’s Prayer

Father, you deserve more praise, more honor, more glory and more love than I alone can give: but in my giving; may I give you all my worship and may my life be a life of worship lived for the purpose and aim of pleasing you.

“The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.”

-          Billy Graham

“Word of God speak, pour down like rain…”

- from ‘Word of God Speak’ by Mercy Me