Worship

 

  Pastor Fred started a new series this week on worship and the passage we started off with is Mark 14:1-9. Here are some of my thoughts about worship

  My first thought is that we were created to worship. We either worship God, ourselves or something else. There is only room for one thing at a time in the center of our lives. If you wonder what you worship, take inventory of what you spend the most time doing and thinking about? In essence, what does our life revolve around and what consumes us? Just a reminder that worship is more than singing a song, but it’s what we do and who or what we give the highest priority in our lives. 

  My second thought is that true worship not only should cost us something great, but it is extravagant and even scary. Just like when Mary  anointed Jesus feet with the perfume that was a years wage, she went against every social norm of the time. Not only was feet washing ment for the lowest servant, but also she was female with a troubled past. Mary had to swallow her own pride and not listen to the snarky comments and thoughts of the disciples to anoint Jesus feet. True worship is not a public showing or a look at me moment, but it is putting Hod where He belongs in our lives. I’m all for corporate worship but it’s the appropriate response and expression to Gods grace in our lives. 

  My third thought is that worship isn’t always easy nor convenient. How often do we feel like we don’t have the energy, time to worship or that our relationship with God is so dry that we don’t have the desire to. Pastor Haven has told the youth more than once that when it’s the hardest to worship, that’s when we should worship the hardest. In essence, worship is a choice and something we need to be intentional with. Worship is even singing songs we don’t like, serving people we don’t like and even giving up something of high value or taking a hit to how others see us. 

  I will close with this. Fanny Crosby who wrote over 8,000 worship songs and is the author of the great hymn Blessed Assurance. She knows something about choosing to worship because was blinded at six weeks old due to medical malpractice. She chose to worship God despite her horrible condition that wasn’t her fault. No matter what our circumstances are or how we feel, worship is something we choose to do with everything we have because God deserves it and so much more

Grace and Peace 

Tom Boustead