Worship Him

I recently watced an interview of Matt Redman. If you've never listened to Matt Redman I would highly recomend him. The intimacy of his worship and his way of communicating that through song is truely awe inspiring.

Anyway, he was talking of how at times our worship has become more "me" centered in today's fast and growing world. I couldn't agree more with him. We walk out of a worhip service saying "I didn't really get much out of that" My question is "Well, is it really about us. Isn't worhip somehting that is for God, to God and about God?" Who are we to go into a time of worshiping the God of the universe, the one who created us and the one who gives us the ultimate gift of salvation and think about ourselves? I think we don't realize that at times we are worhiping a God who is bigger than anything we could even begin to imagine. When we go into worship knowing this it changes our entire attitude. No longer is it about us, but it is about God. No longer is it What i can get out of it, but it is what did God get out of it. Did i truely worship the creator of the universe who deserves all my praise and glory or was i focused on myself so much that God didn't get any praise or any glory.

I think we all must sit down and look at how we worship and our attitudes toward it, because the tendancy so many times is to fall into the trap of thinking that worship is a time for us to feel better about our realtionship with God or a time for us to show off our vocal skills. While both of these things can happen at worship, they should never be the center of why we gather to sing praise to our father.

So the next time you walk into a worship service, leave your selfish desires at the door and enter into a time souly for the purpose of praising God the Father.

Psalm 100

Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.

Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.