Introduction
Worship changes everything. It is everything. When we learn to worship our soul comes alive. Learning to worship our creator is a life-long journey. As we open our hearts, our minds, our spirits, our bodies, our voice, our gifts, and our community to worship we enter into the presence of God in new ways. God doesn’t change – he is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. But our revelation of Him, our experience of his presence grows and grows. When we worship we taste eternity. We cannot comprehend all that worship really is and all that it really does, but we can cultivate a spirit of worship and a daily practice of worship. Our worship might look different every single day. God is the ultimate creator – he is creativity, he is life, he is love – so the way he chooses to reveal himself to us and the way we experience Him may change by the hour, the day, the season. And so we learn to dance with Him, receiving his love and his presence and giving back our love and adoration.
So what is worship?
First let me say what it’s not…worship is not a genre of contemporary Christian music. Worship is much bigger than a music category; it’s bigger than music. Worship is all encompassing. I could write five pages on my own definitions of worship, but here’s some of the biblical definitions of worship: to bow oneself down, to sink down, to prostrate oneself before any one out of honor, to submit oneself. [Strongs H7812] In the ancient days those who used this mode of salutation fell on their knees and touched their forehead to the ground (think child’s pose for all the yogis). When we worship God we bestow kingship back to our rightful king - we bow ourselves down, we place God on the throne of our life. Worship is not just something you do on a Sunday morning at church, it’s a lifestyle. The physical posture of worship denotes a life – heart, mind, spirit, body, voice, gifts – under God’s authority. We all worship something or someone, whether we want to admit it or not – we are hard wired to find something to worship. Maybe it’s your significant other, your career, your happiness, or your comfort that you worship. When you worship something, you choose to put it before everything else. What/who we worship shapes how we live our lives. I believe Jesus Christ is the only one worthy of our worship. Over the next 7 days I hope to inspire, encourage, and challenge you to cultivate a lifestyle of worship to place God back on the throne of your life.
My hope and prayer is that over these next days you will learn or try something new and add it into your worship ☺
Can’t wait to worship with you!
Sarah