5/21/09

This begins a journey.  A journey of worship.  A journey to find my long, lost love again, Jesus Christ.  Only in Him can I find true rest.  True peace.  To fulfill what God has called me to do, I must first start by learning what worship is.  Worship is not easily defined, and a focus for this summer will be to find all the parts that make up worship.  

A part of worship is sacrifice.  If someone were to threaten me with my life unless I were to denounce God, I wouldn't hesitate in giving into death.  but Paul calls us to more than that.  We are to be living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God.  This means, even in the mundane, parts of life, even in utter sorrow, we must offer all of it up and respond to God's glory and splendor.  This is worship.  An unquenchable response to God's wonder.  When the Isrealites were down and going through trials, they looked to God, and God responded.  God has created a covenant with us.  A covenant to never leave us, even when we are in the most content moments.  When we are satisfied, that is when we need to be worshipping God the most; in order that we won't forget the blessings come from God, and not our own power.  When God blessed the Isrealites, they thanked God, then forgot about Him, content in those blessings.  So they had those blessings taken away from them to remind them they always need God.  We may break our covenant we made to continually worship God, but God never breaks His covenant with us, to care and provide for our needs.  to be truly unquenchable, we need to be worshipping God through the good and the bad equally.