Thursday, August 14, 2014

Practical Worship



Romans 12:1               Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.


Once a week, Sundays, Christians attend church to worship God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Prayer, hymns, readings and sermons make up most Christian worship services. Musical instruments, big projection screens, microphones, ushers, offerings and testimonies also can be found in our worship times. Some groups are in and out in an hour. Others worship for hours, stopping when they have depleted all their emotional, physical and mental energies. They get back in their cars and go home. They return a week later and do it again. This is our traditional understanding of worship.

Paul takes worship out of the building on Sunday and gives us permission to worship God each day. Our daily lives are to be filled with worship. Giving to the needs of a stranger is worship. Sharing words of encouragement to someone who is confined to a hospital bed is worship. Enjoying a sunrise or sunset and giving your thoughts to God in appreciation for His creation is worship. Loving your wife and children each day is worship. Waiting patiently in line at the check-out counter while an older woman struggles to find her change purse is worship. Giving of your professional skills toward the education of troubled young men or women at a homeless shelter is worship. Speaking truthfully in love to others is worship. Letting others have their way in a heated discussion is worship.

Doing all things to the glory of God is our practical, daily worship. May you see your day to day lives as more than a routine. I pray you see it as your moment to moment practical worship of God.

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